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Manned COMSAT in GEO
It would have been a real bitch to get crew and supplies to this thing:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/22/its-new-4/ Thank God for miniaturized electronics. Notice anything missing? The station has no obvious means of generating electrical power (I assume the dishes are uplink-downlink communication arrays, not solar collectors, although they do seem to be pointing toward the Sun). Pat |
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Manned COMSAT in GEO
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:12:35 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: It would have been a real bitch to get crew and supplies to this thing: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/22/its-new-4/ Thank God for miniaturized electronics. Notice anything missing? The station has no obvious means of generating electrical power (I assume the dishes are uplink-downlink communication arrays, not solar collectors, although they do seem to be pointing toward the Sun). You could do it with a nuke, but there's no obvious way of rejecting the heat... |
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On Jan 23, 6:12*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
It would have been a real bitch to get crew and supplies to this thing:http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/22/its-new-4/ Thank God for miniaturized electronics. Notice anything missing? The station has no obvious means of generating electrical power (I assume the dishes are uplink-downlink communication arrays, not solar collectors, although they do seem to be pointing toward the Sun). Pat 2e3 Sv/year while shielded by 5/16" aluminum isn't all that DNA friendly either. ~ BG |
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Manned COMSAT in GEO
On Jan 23, 6:22*pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:12:35 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: It would have been a real bitch to get crew and supplies to this thing: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/22/its-new-4/ Thank God for miniaturized electronics. Notice anything missing? The station has no obvious means of generating electrical power (I assume the dishes are uplink-downlink communication arrays, not solar collectors, although they do seem to be pointing toward the Sun). You could do it with a nuke, but there's no obvious way of rejecting the heat... The nuke or solar PV array could be safely tethered km further in or out. ~ BG |
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Manned COMSAT in GEO
Pat Flannery wrote:
:It would have been a real bitch to get crew and supplies to this thing: :http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/22/its-new-4/ :Thank God for miniaturized electronics. :Notice anything missing? :The station has no obvious means of generating electrical power (I :assume the dishes are uplink-downlink communication arrays, not solar :collectors, although they do seem to be pointing toward the Sun). : Given the date, I would assume they figured it would be powered by a nuclear reactor. -- "Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory." --G. Behn |
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Manned COMSAT in GEO
h (Rand Simberg) wrote:
:On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:12:35 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat :Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in :such a way as to indicate that: : :It would have been a real bitch to get crew and supplies to this thing: :http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/22/its-new-4/ :Thank God for miniaturized electronics. :Notice anything missing? :The station has no obvious means of generating electrical power (I :assume the dishes are uplink-downlink communication arrays, not solar :collectors, although they do seem to be pointing toward the Sun). : :You could do it with a nuke, but there's no obvious way of rejecting :the heat... : Come on, guys. The heat is used for environmental control. This is a whacking great object in space. In those days it would probably have been assumed that getting rid of heat in the cold of space would not be a problem. -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw |
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