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The ISS is actually a pretty bad microgravity environment. Human occupants and their life-support systems lead to rather strong system vibrations. Also the low
by fsh 6y ago
The ISS is actually a pretty bad microgravity environment. Human occupants and their life-support systems lead to rather strong system vibrations. Also the low orbit required for efficient supply flights causes a significant amount of atmospheric drag. Space stations are mainly there for show, the actual science is better done somewhere else.
- ben_w 6y agoSurely how good it is for an experiment depends on the experiment? Microgravity effects on biology don’t need anything close to the same precision as the test in the link.
- ajuc 6y agoI meant: - send components to ISS - assemble - subtly nudge the container to a different orbit - wait for it to do the experiment and catch when the orbits meet again. Or if that's too hard just wait for results to be transmitted