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U.S. wants boots on the Moon by 2024
Jeff Findley wrote on Tue, 2 Apr 2019
07:08:32 -0400: In article , says... It surely could be solved, with enough money. The devil is in the details though. I've been told Orion and its service module can't be horizontally integrated. Doubly so for the monster of an escape tower (which wouldn't be needed if you launch Orion uncrewed). I still don't see the problem. You integrate it like every other payload on Falcon Heavy; vertically on the center core. No payloads have ever been integrated vertically on Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy. All of their launch sites have horizontal integration facilities. The vehicle with payload attached is then (horizontally) rolled out to the pad on a transporter-erector. At the pad, the vehicle is put into the vertical position by the transporter-erector. They chose to do things this way because it's faster and cheaper. Ah. It just finally penetrated what you're actually talking about. Why would Orion have to be done differently? Sure, SpaceX likely could do vertical integration of the payload if given money to develop the facilities necessary. But I've never heard anything coming out of SpaceX or even Elon Musk (Tweets) that says they're going to do this. And I see no reason why they would have to. -- "Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory." --G. Behn |
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