{"id":25147,"date":"2014-04-14T08:25:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T13:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25147"},"modified":"2014-04-14T08:25:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T13:25:48","slug":"spacex-to-test-hover-capability-on-next-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/14\/spacex-to-test-hover-capability-on-next-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to test hover capability on next launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>The Register<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/04\/14\/dragon_launch_go_despite_iss_computer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brid-Aine Parnell<\/a> explains what will be different about the next SpaceX launch to resupply the ISS:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NASA has said that SpaceX&#8217;s latest cargoship launch to the International Space Station will go ahead, despite a critical computer outage on the station, allowing the firm to test the craft&#8217;s hovering abilities.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The booster rocket that&#8217;s blasting the Dragon supply capsule into space is going to attempt to make a hovering soft landing after it&#8217;s disengaged and dropped back to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The spruced-up Falcon 9 has its own landing legs, which Elon Musk&#8217;s space tech company hopes will eventually make for precise set-downs on the surface of alien worlds. For this test though, the rocket will still be coming down over the ocean, just in case.<\/p>\n<p>The launch is already a month late with its nearly 5,000 pounds of supplies and payloads, including VEGGIE, a new unit capable of growing salad vegetables for the &#8216;nauts to munch on. The ship was delayed from March after a ground-based radar system at Cape Canaveral was damaged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Register, Brid-Aine Parnell explains what will be different about the next SpaceX launch to resupply the ISS: NASA has said that SpaceX&#8217;s latest cargoship launch to the International Space Station will go ahead, despite a critical computer outage on the station, allowing the firm to test the craft&#8217;s hovering abilities. [&#8230;] The booster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,15],"tags":[825,69,716,708],"class_list":["post-25147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-science","category-technology","tag-iss","tag-nasa","tag-spacecraft","tag-spacex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6xB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25148,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147\/revisions\/25148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}