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Genuinely curious Other than a bit more insight on the impacts on human healthy from long term spaceflight.. What are the major scientific insights or developm
by contrarian1234 3y ago
Genuinely curious
Other than a bit more insight on the impacts on human healthy from long term spaceflight.. What are the major scientific insights or developments made thanks to the ISS?
With Apollo there are quite a few, but with the ISS I can't think of anything
- simongray 3y agoThis was recently in the Danish news since it was done by a Danish astronaut on the ISS: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/New_images_of_rare_thunder https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex...
- jvanderbot 3y agoI understand why people might feel this way. Esp, if you think of the ISS as "a bunch of tired astronauts in a floating lab box" But the ISS should be considered a manned instrument bus. Consider OCO-3, a gimballed observer on the exterior of the ISS. It has revolutionized our understanding of global carbon cycles, and local carbon sink/sources. There are numerous such missions that benefit from a common, well supported platform to operate from. The next one should be robotic though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Carbon_Observatory_3 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Carbon_Observatory_...
- baud147258 3y agobut did it need to be attached to a manned space station, or could the observer run from a sattelite?
- jvanderbot 3y agoThe cost of attaching a satellite is more than attaching it to the ISS (which has large solar panels, processors, downlink equipment, etc). We are essentially shipping up an instrument only, rather than the instrument + all the supporting equipment. For a datacenter analogy, it's like adding a HD to a server, rather than buying a new server for more storage. It could run from a sat, but then we'd have much fewer missions we could fly.