ATV un-manned supply ship, JulesVerne - ESA's AutoTransferVehicle |
ATV un-manned supply ship, JulesVerne - ESA's AutoTransferVehicle |
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Jules Verne ATV Launch Approaching
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/...80211120639.htm |
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(Beat on me if needed since I' making up numbers... does anybody have the REAL ones?)
There are two problems with the Jules Verne ATV. 1.) It carres 3 times what a Progress can carry, for 10 times the cost. 2.) It's a space tug, carrying a payload cannister. it's an <expletive deleted> DISPOSABLE space tug. What would it be able to do if it were a REAL space tug?.... if an Ariane 5 launched a "slightly smart" Cargo cannister, the cannister would mass as much as the ATV, have attitude control and enough solar panels <non-deployable.... keep it cheap> to loiter in it's orbit and wait for the tug.. The tug would detach from the ISS and rendezvous with the cannister and retrieve it, rendezvousing with the station and docking the cannister to the station. The tug would replenish it's propulsion system from the cannister through it's docked connection to the other end of the cannister (cannister would have one male, one female docking port.) At end of mission, Tug would detach cannister and put it into an orbit from which the "slightly smart" cannister would do an orientation maneuver and a de-orbit burn with a small <solid?> rocket and re-enter. Tug would re-rendezvous with station and await it's next mission. It's a good first step, but ESA needs to take the second step. |
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