Space Stations: Past, Present, And Future

[spacesailor]

Why !.

Are you stuck on the Four Finger counter.

Each finger has Three segments making Twelve counts per hand,  using the thumb to do the count.

spacesailor

[willedoo]

10 hours ago, nomadpete said:

I really admire these incredible space achievements. 

But why, when we have all this precision available through modern technology, why, oh why can't they put a shredder or robovac on the front of these spacecraft. Solving the problem of avoiding space trash.

Maybe a compactor. Squash it all into a big block, strap on a couple of rockets and send it off to another solar system.

[willedoo]

10 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Wise words from a native taswegian

Don't worry, we've got the Lockyer Valley so we know all about it.

[spacesailor]

" Maybe a compactor. Squash it all into a big block, strap on a couple of rockets and send it off to another solar system. 

Also add a Magnet, it would help catch ferric metals.

spacesailor

 

[Old Koreelah]

2 hours ago, willedoo said:

Maybe a compactor. Squash it all into a big block, strap on a couple of rockets and send it off to another solar system.

Better still, collect it up and re-use it in space construction.
It cost squillions to get materials into orbit, so why waste it?

[spacesailor]

 A little robot from the movie world could help !.

Call ! "WALL-E"  Neat little guy. does all the work without a sigh' .

spacesailor

[willedoo]

On 04/07/2021 at 9:38 PM, Old Koreelah said:

Better still, collect it up and re-use it in space construction.
It cost squillions to get materials into orbit, so why waste it?

I wonder if they could invent a space machine that sucks it in, turns it into a suitable medium and then uses that material to 3D print things.

[willedoo]

The Russians are putting up their own Hubble. The Spektr-UV will be a space based UV telescope, planned for launch in October 2025. It will be built by Lavochkin of former aeroplane fame, and funding of equivalent 50 mllion USD has been allocated. sounds cheap when compared to the launch cost.

 

The other telescope announced is a ground-based optical laser system to observe satellites. It will also be able to determine what kind of equipment is on foreign satellites and detect space debris that threatens domestic equipment in orbit. Far away from space, this year they launched an underwater telescope in Lake Baikal to detect high-energy cosmic particles.

[willedoo]

I see that Captain Kirk finally got to go to space for real. He claimed the title of oldest person in space.

[Marty_d]

He boldly went where no old man has gone before.

(An old woman went first.)

[onetrack]

You mean to tell me, that Capt Kirk has never been to Outer Space before?? - we've been LIED TO, all this time?? 

[Marty_d]

Don't you listen to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers?

 

"Space may be the final frontier

But it's made in a Hollywood basement"

[facthunter]

Davey Crocket had a wild frontier. Better. Final sounds so er Final.  Nev

[Fliteright]

Imagine how much money has been wasted in space exploration & war weapons? Must be uncountable!

[facthunter]

There's a lot of money in arms sales. Merchants of death.. Nev

[onetrack]

The scary part was when the Americans started exploding nuclear weapons in space. Luckily, that's been banned - for now.

 

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-50th-anniversary-of-starfish-prime-the-nuke-that-shook-the-world

[willedoo]

In other space news, three Chinese taikonauts have docked at the Chinese space station to start the first long term stint. They'll be there for six months.

[spacesailor]

SIX MONTHS ,.

IT takes about that time to SAIL from Melbourne  tp Cains, taking The scenic route.

spacesailor

[willedoo]

Roscosmos have said they will build a prototype reusable rocket by the end of next year. They've said that the SpaceX technology is not suitable for Russia due to the geographic location of the Vostochny spaceport in the far east and the resulting lack of a suitable area for recovery. It will be developed by the Myasishchev Design Bureau of ex bomber fame. It's proposed that the rocket's first stage will deploy a wing and switch on a rocket engine at a designated altitude to assist in recovery. Sounds like they intend to fly it to a suitable landing spot.

[willedoo]

One of the people who flew to space with Captain Kirk last month has died in a Cessna 172 crash.

[Old Koreelah]

At last, an alternative to noisy, fuel-guzzling rockets:

https://screenrant.com/spinlaunch-sends-rocket-space-no-fuel-how/

[willedoo]

The TASS Russian News Agency will be the first of all global mass media outlets to open a permanent bureau on the International Space Station. The first TASS correspondent onboard the orbital outpost will be Hero of Russia, cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin. Reporting on daily routine, his reports will be available to the agency’s readership from TASS news resources and his photo and video contributions will be uploaded to the agency’s website and official pages on social media.

 

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin has said that doing two jobs, that of a cosmonaut and a correspondent simultaneously, would not result in a conflict of interest, although all crew members working in orbit had access to sensitive information. "The cosmonauts are highly professional and know very well where to stop. I believe, there will be no conflict of interest," Rogozin assured.

 

Misurkin will head off on the Soyuz MS-20 on December 8 with his TASS correspondent’s ID, together with Japanese billionaire Yusako Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano.

[willedoo]

Russian Space Systems, a subsidiary of the Russian state space company Roscosmos, are working on a project to collect solar power in space and transfer it back to earth. Part A will be a 70 sq. metre unmanned spacecraft to collect the solar energy, part B is a ground station antenna array that will receive energy wirelessly from the spacecraft and distribute it. They'll be using a laser ray to transfer the energy. The spacecraft will also be able to store surplus energy and transfer it to other spacecraft if needed. A bit like a space service station.

[Marty_d]

I hear the sunlight is a lot clearer in space... wonder how much more efficient solar collection is with no atmospherics, clouds, night time, or possum shit?

[Old Koreelah]

Harvestng solar energy from space has been proposed many times, but I hope it doesn’t get developed too much; it would be adding energy that was not destined to reach our planet. Earth’s heat budget has been mucked up enough by our species.