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Its nice to be able to design things around Sci-Fi. However, still in 2022, there is no spacecraft that allows EVAs anywhere.
by NikolaeVarius 5y ago
Its nice to be able to design things around Sci-Fi. However, still in 2022, there is no spacecraft that allows EVAs anywhere.
- jacquesm 5y agoThe occupants of the ISS beg to differ. http://spaceref.com/iss/eva.html http://spaceref.com/iss/eva.html
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoI was unaware that the ISS was a spacecraft. I was under the impression it was a space station. Im also unaware that the ISS is able to reach L2 or really any orbit other than LEO roughly 400km in altitude.
- jacquesm 5y ago> I was unaware that the ISS was a spacecraft. I can't really help that, but here is a nice page from NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-the-iss-58.html https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-... "The International Space Station is a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth." > Im also unaware that the ISS is able to reach L2 or really any orbit other than LEO roughly 400km in altitude. You can tow it wherever you want, provided you attach a suitable propulsion device. That's also how it stays in that orbit, every now and then they boost it back up to offset the orbital decay. Also: in space assembly could take place in orbit and then when the device is complete it can be sent off to L2. The problem with such a scheme is when things break down after the transit to L2.
- pfdietz 5y agoExactly the same kind of snark could have been uttered about lower cost launch before SpaceX upset the apple cart. It would not require enormous changes for something like Hubble servicing to be done with a Crew Dragon.