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I've been waiting for this for a long time. I spent the past two summers working on the Dragon docking as an intern.
by amirmansour 14y ago
I've been waiting for this for a long time. I spent the past two summers working on the Dragon docking as an intern.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoTell us more! Blog link about it?
- amirmansour 14y agoWell I spent the last two summers as an intern at SpaceX working on several things, but one was that mechanism that the Canadian arm attaches to. I can't talk much about the specifics, but one of things I did was program the micro-controllers that interface with the motors that open the hatch door (and some other stuff) that contains the hook for the robotic arm to grab. I wish I could write more and even make a blog post, but I'm simply not allowed to do so.
- nickik 14y agoAre you a programmer? Is the docing full automatic? Until know the only automatic thing was the ATV right?
- amirmansour 14y agoI'm an electrical engineering student. When it came to docking mechanism I was an embedded systems programmer. Yes, to my knowledge the docking is fully automatic.