Sierra Space has passed another major benchmark. This did not include the expansion (and then pop) of the space station module model. According to the startup Updated January 29Dream Chaser, the company’s retro bube chacer, has recently demonstrated the ability to handle important payloads for the International Space Station. Beyond the ISS, Sierra Space’s DREAM CHASER CARGO System (DCCS) may be useful for future orbital installation in similar abilities.
Mile stones, like Sierra Space’s joint test 10B, are required to confirm DREAM CHASER’s “ability to handle special payloads such as important scientific research.”
Last month’s test required adjustments in multiple places. The Dream Chaser itself was located at the Kennedy Space Center in NASA in Florida, but the control room also participated in exercises at Sierra Space, Coloradado, and Hanzbills, Alabama, Alabama. During the test, Dream Chaser demonstrated the ability to exchange data between multiple payloads in the pressurized cabin, air -cooled function, and the ability to consistently maintain power in the cabin.
The joint test 10B focuses on three payloads, all of which may be on the DCC-1. The first cargo, a very low-temperature storage system designed by a researcher at Alabama University in Birmingham, saves scientific samples at temperature between Mr. Sebu-95 and 10 degrees (-130 to 50 degrees). Sierra Space Collaborator’s Space Tango’s Powered Assent Utility Locker (Paul) aims to conduct a Cubelab experiment that requires power while DREAM CHASER rises to ISS. Finally, NASA’s single loading locker is a standard compartment system that is frequently used to transport experiments and other ingredients with ISS.
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The design of Dream Chaser is significantly different from the current reusable payload systems such as SpaceX Dragon and Nortrop Grumman Cygnus Capsules. Instead of the parachute re -entry system, Dream Chaser is much more similar to the NASA Space Shuttle and returns to the earth through the landing road. Beauty callback is not an accident. As New Atlas Dream Chaser, pointed out on January 30, is mainly based on the HL-20 Human Starting System. This is the concept of astronauts that NASA first developed by NASA in the 1980s. The HL-20 itself is a descendant of the US Air Force X-20 Dyna-Soar SpacePlane for the mission of the 1960s.
Dream Chaser’s previous itelation was originally running for NASA’s astronaut transportation contract, but lost to Spacex and BoEing. The Sierra Space has then remodeled the space plane, removes passenger sections, and has set up a consumable cargo module that can ferry in track with 11,000 pounds and 1,100 pounds of unbreakable substitute. During the return flight, Dream Chaser Cargo System (DCCS) can also process 3,860 pounds of cargo.
DREAM CHASER’s first transportation mission is at least a few months later, but as Gonzalez explained this week, this test is “We will be one step closer to us.”
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