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  1. Canopus
    So you are proposing a reusable shuttle that flies from leo to lunar orbit and back? If that was an option we wouldn't need the Orion Capsule anyway. I don't really see why it would have to be a Salyut though.
  2. Canopus
    Yeah i really don't get the idea here.
  3. Canopus
    Yes it weighs more with Service module, but it also has way more Delta V.
  4. Canopus
    Orions mission is to reenter from high orbits as to enable human exploration beyond low earth orbit. I don't see how an old Russian Spacestation could fill that role unless itself was equipped with a big service module to break into LEO and meet with a Soyuz. Orion (the Capsule only) weighs 10 tons. Salyut 7 was 20 tons.
  5. Canopus
    Yeah but sending an entire space station with even less Delta v every time you fly an Orion doesn't sound like a reasonable alternative to the ESM.
  6. Canopus
    Salyut is a Space station though not a service Module i don't see the connection there. About the delta v, i guess not they don't need that much for the Missions planned with the Orion. It seems like it doesn't take as much fuel to get to the Distant Retrograde Orbit or near rectilinear Halo orbit as opposed to low Lunar Orbit.
  7. Canopus
    I tried copying it and now it works for me too, seems that just moving it is not enough.
  8. Canopus
    The problem is that both solutions don't seem to work anymore.
  9. Canopus
    Wouldn‘t the roundtrip for control and feedback be something like 3 seconds? Let‘s say you where to conduct some kind of critical work on the Surface like building a habitat (i know its unlikely to happen soon) wouldn‘t it still be beneficial to control or atleast monitor something like the Canadarm in realtime? Well maybe it‘s just wishfull thinking on my part. I guess i am just happy to see people leaving LEO for the first time in 50 years.
  10. Canopus
    Support of unmanned surface mission like teleoperating robots with less delay? Construction and servicing spacecraft for missions to asteroids and maybe eventually Mars, testing manned spaceflight outside the Earths Magnetic field. Atleast thats what Nasa themselves suggest. Who knows what international Partners will do with the station? I think it offers more possibilities than the ISS.
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    But now that they have a payload and a destination isn‘t the while point moot? There isn‘t really another launcher that can support a Space station in Lunar Orbit and once they start building the DSG, nobody will cut the Funding and end the SLS. And since the budget for probes is seperate from manned missions (atleast i think it is) i don‘t really see the downsite to the whole thing. And seeing that the ISS has attracted companys like Orbital ATK and spacex i think it can only help in the private sector too
  12. Canopus
    What Rocket other than the Saturn V was built with a specific payload in mind?
  13. Canopus
    The moons mass isn't evenly spread around. It has Pockets of denser materials all over its surface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_concentration_(astronomy)
  14. Canopus
    Well yeah i give you that one. Although what would be the difference then between a Hermetically sealed Habitat on Mars rather than one Earth?
  15. Canopus
    Dinosaurs weren't exactly known for their Bunkers and central heating. Look i'm all for a Mars settlement, but saying we need one as a backup for earth is just not true. By the time Mars is Terraformed to be as survivable as Antarctica, we can most likely predict dangerous asteroids for hundreds of years in the future and divert them.
  16. Canopus
    Sorry but even after an Asteroid impact you could still walk around the Earth without a spacesuit. There is nothing short of the complete resurfacing of the Earth that would make life on Mars favourable.
  17. Canopus
    What event would make Earth less habitable than Mars though?
  18. Canopus
    I guess if they ever fly they will look more like bigger versions of the DC-X. Less Windows and less fins.
  19. Canopus
    The whole thing looks a little too retro for me. Like something from a 50's Sci-fi Magazine cover.
  20. Canopus
    Engines using only the most readily available resources as propellant. Things like Electrothermal and solar thermal rockets using water as a propellant. Maybe even solarsails. I don't think Nuclear reactors will be too widespread in Spacecraft seeing as they rely on a rarer resources and thus might be confined to places that can't always rely on solar power, like surface installations. Also cool to see someone still playing COADE around these parts. I just got the Gold Achievement yesterday
  21. Canopus
    So i can't watch any of these videos right now. Can any one tell me when and where these Orions dock with these ACES, or are they launched with them? And how are people supposed to fly to Mars only in these small command modules?. Or am i getting the whole thing wrong?
  22. Canopus
    I read some months ago that they where building an airlock for the station that would likely be launched on an SLS. I don‘t know if thats the plan anymore though.
  23. Canopus
    I always wondered why some High gain antennas are covered like the one on OSIRIS-REx and Juno, where as older Spacecraft don't seem to be build that way. What is the purpose or Advantage of these covers?
  24. Canopus
    The first working powered wheels in KSP would have to be these ones: I can't remember the name of the mod and the creator but in the Reddit thread i found this picture it's called Tosh rover mod. After looking into it the mod was called Tosh's Cart and Bobcat Rovers seems to have used the same plugin
  25. Canopus
    Kronos is the Greek equivalent of Saturn so i guess Kronocentric means the Orbit is centered around Saturn.
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