A new use for the ISS |
A new use for the ISS |
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![]() The Poet Dude ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 ![]() |
I know there's about as much chance of this happening as there is of Keira Knightley ringing me up and asking me to show her the stars on the next clear night, but what a wonderful, wonderful idea...
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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
Good point, and "non-trivial" might be an understatement, unless you put it in like an 80 km lunar orbit with attendant fuel requirements for orbit maintenance. Does the ISS even have heat pipes now, or is the sheer volume of the structure enough to dissipate the current thermal load each orbit?
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 ![]() |
. . . unless you put it in like an 80 km lunar orbit with attendant fuel requirements for orbit maintenance. As long as we're dreaming, :-) better would be to park it at the Earth-Moon L1 point and simply tether it to the Lunar surface with a cable. But getting it through the Van Allen belts without wrecking it seems too hard. I could imagine clever engineering solutions to the other problems, but not to that one. --Greg |
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