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Working Hand In Glove
Bill Bogen wrote:
[...] If the operator is nearby (in a station/habitat) and the robot has well-designed, dextrous effector 'fingers', well, then put the 'fingers' at the end of a space suit arm and skip the expensive robot. Keeping EVAs to a minimum is a good goal. A better robotic hand has other uses than space assembly. If they're marketable, manufacturing runs could be large. Then the unit cost could be low. -- Hop David http://clowder.net/hop/index.html |
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In sci.space.policy Derek Lyons wrote:
But it does not reduce the difficulty of 'building a ship in a bottle'. It works for ISS because you are plugging modules into a shell already built and rigged, and launched with the hard-to-rig bits (ECLSS etc) already installed. Building in space means rigging all those cables, pipes, ducts, etc... It also means doing the hard bits in space, rather than on the ground. If teh bits are hard, then obviously too little engineering was applied to make it simple. IN fact, its not clear why humans should be involved at all - they should go up in the last flight, have their ship dock with the assembly from the previous launches and fly off. You know, this isn't 19th century and we are not dealing with sailing ships. D. -- Sander +++ Out of cheese error +++ |
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Sander Vesik wrote:
In sci.space.policy Derek Lyons wrote: But it does not reduce the difficulty of 'building a ship in a bottle'. It works for ISS because you are plugging modules into a shell already built and rigged, and launched with the hard-to-rig bits (ECLSS etc) already installed. Building in space means rigging all those cables, pipes, ducts, etc... It also means doing the hard bits in space, rather than on the ground. If teh bits are hard, then obviously too little engineering was applied to make it simple. The worlds maritime and aeronautical engineers and their customers await your instructions on how to cure the current situation with bated breath. They've been try to solve this problem with limited success since the early part of the 20th century. A life of fame and fortune will be yours when you reveal the secret that has eluded hundreds of thousands of engineers, planners, builders, etc... across the last century. IN fact, its not clear why humans should be involved at all - they should go up in the last flight, have their ship dock with the assembly from the previous launches and fly off. I suppose pixies and fairies will the construction and installation? You know, this isn't 19th century and we are not dealing with sailing ships. You know, you are utterly without a clue as to how complex these things are and how difficult assembly and maintence really is. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. |
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Derek Lyons wrote:
Certainly. But that's what conning a ship s as well, issuing orders to the Helm. Back in the good old days of wind-driven sea travel, there were firms competing to send pilots out to arriving ships to bring them into harbor; since the first pilot to arrive would generally be the one to get the job and make the money, building high speed pilot boats became a worthwhile endeavor, and their design formed the foundation from which the racing yacht "America" sprang. Pat |
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