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ISS mission extended to 2024
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/...nding-to-2024/
Of course this depends on the next presidents funding it, but it's a good sign and means more likely commercial investment will continue. |
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ISS mission extended to 2024
Provided some catastrophe does not occur. Listening to Mr Hadfield on TV
here in the UK last night he said that in the quieter parts of the statiion you could hear things impacting the outside quite a lit and of course as they were pretty small it did not cause any problems, but sooner or later one supposed something a little bigger might come along despite all the tracking. Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active "Greg (Strider) Moore" wrote in message ... http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/...nding-to-2024/ Of course this depends on the next presidents funding it, but it's a good sign and means more likely commercial investment will continue. |
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ISS mission extended to 2024
"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
... In article , says... Provided some catastrophe does not occur. Listening to Mr Hadfield on TV here in the UK last night he said that in the quieter parts of the statiion you could hear things impacting the outside quite a lit and of course as they were pretty small it did not cause any problems, but sooner or later one supposed something a little bigger might come along despite all the tracking. It's a possibility, to be sure, but so far it's not been an issue for ISS or any prior LEO space station. Well, not entirely true. We do have at least one space station that was definitely hit by something. Of course it was manmade, but still was a very real issue. Jeff -- Greg D. Moore http://greenmountainsoftware.wordpress.com/ CEO QuiCR: Quick, Crowdsourced Responses. http://www.quicr.net |
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ISS mission extended to 2024
Yes, but I'm still not clear whether that was due to a malfunction on the
craft, or human error. It would be best one supposes not to let folk control vehicles close to the station without some kind of failsafe retreat from area system on board. Incidentally, have they still got viable spare gyros for the iSS? and what of the race ring issue. I heard a rumour that the damage was basically due to the thrust being set wrongly on that side in the first place, However with that and the no doubt embarrassing problem with the boosting of the station when it started to vibrate and bend, one wonders if they want to keep it going, will they be able to avoid this sort of error? It was interesting On UK TV two days ago, Mr Hadfield suggested that just as twe expect fatalities when exploring Earth in the past, we really should accept them when we start to go into deep space, as nothing can be totally safe. I do think there is a lot of truth in this, and as long as the gung ho merchants are controlled, and make competent decisions on the known data, I do not think we can not do something just bec ause its dangerous. We accept that in a lot of sports, but politicians seem to be very twitchy when we start to talk about space flight. Perhaps it is an attitude that will change as commercial interests get involved in the same way it has in Farming and Fishing etc. Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active "Greg (Strider) Moore" wrote in message ... "Jeff Findley" wrote in message ... In article , says... Provided some catastrophe does not occur. Listening to Mr Hadfield on TV here in the UK last night he said that in the quieter parts of the statiion you could hear things impacting the outside quite a lit and of course as they were pretty small it did not cause any problems, but sooner or later one supposed something a little bigger might come along despite all the tracking. It's a possibility, to be sure, but so far it's not been an issue for ISS or any prior LEO space station. Well, not entirely true. We do have at least one space station that was definitely hit by something. Of course it was manmade, but still was a very real issue. Jeff -- Greg D. Moore http://greenmountainsoftware.wordpress.com/ CEO QuiCR: Quick, Crowdsourced Responses. http://www.quicr.net |
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ISS mission extended to 2024
Yes, There do seem to be quite a few places on the outside now where
astronauts on space walks are being told to be careful of sharp hazards due to micrometeorite dings... The risk must be hard to actually quantify, since nobody seems to know the density and size of space rocks. I suppose it could just as easily be a bit of debris instead, but one would imagine the energy levels of those would be lower since most are in earth orbit, unless they are orbiting in the other direction I guess. Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active "Jeff Findley" wrote in message ... In article , says... Provided some catastrophe does not occur. Listening to Mr Hadfield on TV here in the UK last night he said that in the quieter parts of the statiion you could hear things impacting the outside quite a lit and of course as they were pretty small it did not cause any problems, but sooner or later one supposed something a little bigger might come along despite all the tracking. It's a possibility, to be sure, but so far it's not been an issue for ISS or any prior LEO space station. Jeff -- "the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer |
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