{"id":19489,"date":"2016-01-22T20:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T12:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-shows-how-its-dragon-2-spaceship-hovers\/"},"modified":"2016-01-22T20:05:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T12:05:27","slug":"spacex-shows-how-its-dragon-2-spaceship-hovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-shows-how-its-dragon-2-spaceship-hovers\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX shows how its Dragon 2 spaceship hovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_224601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224601\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-224601\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160122-dragon2-630x489.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX Dragon in hover test\" width=\"630\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160122-dragon2-630x489.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160122-dragon2-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160122-dragon2.jpg 882w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-224601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Dragon craft fires its thrusters during a propulsive hover test in Texas. (Credit: SpaceX)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A newly released video shows SpaceX\u2019s Dragon 2 capsule pulling off&nbsp;a valuable&nbsp;trick: firing its thrusters to hover above a landing pad.<\/p>\n<p>The Nov. 24 test was&nbsp;part of Project DragonFly, the California-based company\u2019s effort to develop a Dragon that can touch down on land rather than splashing down in the ocean. The trick is likely to come into play when future Dragons come back from the International Space Station \u2014 or land on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>This test was conducted at SpaceX\u2019s rocket development facility in Texas. The Dragon was suspended from a tether, and then engineers fired up its eight SuperDraco thrusters for five seconds. SpaceX said the firing generated about 33,000 pounds of thrust before the craft was returned to its resting position.<\/p>\n<p>The thrusters could also be used to power the Dragon to safety if something goes wrong during a launch. That was the point of a pad abort test that SpaceX conducted in Florida last May. Such a system will be essential for Dragon flights that carry astronauts into orbit. Crewed flights could begin as early as next year under the terms of a multibillion-dollar development deal with NASA.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Dragon 2 Propulsive Hover Test\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/07Pm8ZY0XJI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip to Alex Knapp at Forbes.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Dragon craft fires its thrusters during a propulsive hover test in Texas. (Credit: SpaceX) A newly released video shows SpaceX\u2019s Dragon 2 capsule pulling off&nbsp;a valuable&nbsp;trick: firing its thrusters to hover above a landing pad. The Nov. 24 test was&nbsp;part of Project DragonFly, the California-based company\u2019s effort to develop a Dragon that can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[291,1395,190,316],"class_list":["post-19489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-space","tag-dragon","tag-nasa","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}