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Planetary Radio's show is interesting - it has an interview with Jeff Richichi, SpaceX's Director of Structural Engineering. It starts at about 6:19 and runs about 15 minutes. Notable items;
- Dragon's lighting is all LED for low current draw & maximum life
- SpaceX makes its own thermal blankets using a team of seamstresses. They will also be making their own spacesuits.
- just one failure in the entire flight: a temperature sensor, which was triple-redundant anyhow.
- the biggie: they're dismantling the COTS-1 capsule for analysis, and from what they've seen so far they could stick it on another Falcon 9 and fly it again as is.
- Dragon's lighting is all LED for low current draw & maximum life
- SpaceX makes its own thermal blankets using a team of seamstresses. They will also be making their own spacesuits.
- just one failure in the entire flight: a temperature sensor, which was triple-redundant anyhow.
- the biggie: they're dismantling the COTS-1 capsule for analysis, and from what they've seen so far they could stick it on another Falcon 9 and fly it again as is.
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