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Crew Dragon Resilience is floating in Spacex in the Pacific Ocean on April 4 after it was sprayed to end the Fram2 spacecraft mission. | Credit: Spacex
The West Coast is the best coast of landing in the dragon, at least in Spacex books.
The four -person company Fra2 The mission reached a successful end on Friday (April 4) with Splashdown of the Crew Dragon Capsule “Flexibility” Off the coast of southern California.
That was the first SpacexGeography: All 16 missions of astronauts have hit the water off Florida, either in the Atlantic Ocean or in the Gulf of Mexico.
Flexibility is transferred on a recovery ship on April 4 after Splashdown. | Credit: Spacex
In fact, all a returning dragon capsule, its crew, or medium, had declined near Florida since early 2021. But last July, last July, last July. Advertisexx She planned to transfer recovery operations to the West Coast.
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The decision was paid through the fact that the debris from the Dragon trunk department was found in Terra Firma on multiple occasions, although modeling works indicate that the trunk will burn completely while re -entering Atmosphere.
The transfer of Splashdowns to the West Coast – besides giving up the trunk after burning Dragon’s Deorbit, to control the trunk path – will ensure that no wreck or property is damaged, according to Spacex; Anything that escapes from re -enter will fall into the Pacific Ocean.
Spacex representatives said that this new strategy was used in Fra2 and will be repeated on every dragon task to move forward.
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Well, naming the “new” strategy is not completely correct; The Pacific Ocean was the original goal of Dragon Splashdowns, and exclusive remained for nearly a decade after the first Dragon trip in 2010.
“Dragon recovery operations moved to the eastern coast in 2019, enabling the teams to empty and hand over the important teams of NASA in Florida more efficiently and transfer its crews more quickly to that Kennedy Space Center“Spacex Books in to update Last July.
