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What's that white thing? (was Progress M-48 update, 25-08-2003)
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Snellenberger wrote: [disclaimer - I'm probably wrong] There's a white object in the background of the third picture on this page. It's labeled, but I can only make out the first two characters (which appear to be "Co" in Cyrillic). I'm guessing that it's a Soyuz that's been shrink-wrapped for storage/protection. It appears to have the orbital compartment at the left, with the re-entry module and service modules further to the right. It also doesn't appear to have the solar arrays installed, unless they conform very, very closely to the service module. It's definitely not contained in a regular payload fairing, since it conforms pretty closely to the shape of whatever's underneath. Anyone else have a more informed guess? Have a look at http://spaceflightnow.com/station/so...go/index2.html - it looks, to me at least, rather like the payload fairing itself. A picture from the same angle would be useful, though. -- -Andrew Gray |
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What's that white thing? (was Progress M-48 update, 25-08-2003)
Andrew Gray wrote in
: In article , Reed Snellenberger wrote: [disclaimer - I'm probably wrong] There's a white object in the background of the third picture on this page. snipping the blah-blah Anyone else have a more informed guess? Have a look at http://spaceflightnow.com/station/so...go/index2.html - it looks, to me at least, rather like the payload fairing itself. A picture from the same angle would be useful, though. Yep, I think you're right -- your picture shows it from a better angle, and there is a narrowing of the fairing that's similar. I guess I'm so used to seeing houses under construction that are wrapped in Tyvek that I just did an interpolation. Still, I wonder what kind of siding they're going to put on it ;-) -- Reed Snellenberger |
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