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Two-year-old and 24-year-old space station comparison - photos
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Anyone who owns a garage understands these pictures.
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The ISS was a Russian design basically because they had the longest duration space station up to that point. It was minimalist.
A few decades down the road there should be a few things learned I'd hope!
Those inflatable modules being one of the ideas that should be tried. A little tougher than the ISS currently is.
Mark
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I wonder how many times those panels had to be removed to get at punctures caused by micro meteoroids.
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Originally Posted by
mwmkravchenko
Those inflatable modules being one of the ideas that should be tried. A little tougher than the ISS currently is.
The ones from Bigelow Aerospace? I remember hearing about those a lot years ago, and then nothing. Did any of these modules end up getting installed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F78fucCz2Jk
Edit: Yup looks like one's on the ISS (I think).
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I don't remember the company name, but I know that they are deep into testing. The have inflation and they are working through impact testing. That turns out to be better than the few millimeters of aluminum on the ISS.
Mark
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Originally Posted by
Frank S
I wonder how many times those panels had to be removed to get at punctures caused by micro meteoroids.
I wonder if stuff like this is not talked about, or is it that it doesn't happen often. If you have a leak lik eon the Russian modules it needs to be addressed. Some crazy disgruntled people working on the newer Russian modules.
Mark
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Originally Posted by
mwmkravchenko
I don't remember the company name, but I know that they are deep into testing.
It's like Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo was getting into building aerospace components. That's the only reason I remembered the name of the company.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHLBeUhN-s4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AuaMpxcTAw
Sierra Space is still in the game. They had been hoping Bezos would be able to launch them. But he is the king of getting not to much done for the billions he has spent. Maybe SpaceX? They kind of have launching stuff down to a routine thing.
Mark
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Give it a few years.
I like to "collect" things and if the Chinese are anything like me, it will look as bad if not worse than the ISS- and/or my apartment...
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Originally Posted by
nova_robotics
The ones from Bigelow Aerospace? I remember hearing about those a lot years ago, and then nothing. Did any of these modules end up getting installed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F78fucCz2Jk
Edit: Yup looks like one's on the ISS (I think).
Last I heard, Bigelow got caught up in the shenanigans with Skinwalker Ranch. They could inflate those things with all the hot air their marketing dept. produces...
