Re: Space Island Group
- From: "Jorge R. Frank" <jrfrank@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:10:53 -0500
"S H" <shostetler@xxxxxxx> wrote in LIA0g.23020$s%6.2733@dukeread02:">news:LIA0g.23020$s%6.2733@dukeread02:
I'm curious why nobody has posted anything regarding Space Island Groups
approach towards building a rather large
space station using the shuttle's external tanks. Perhaps a few here can
shed some light on the matter.
It's not going to happen. There are, at most, nineteen shuttle flights
remaining in the program. Their site also contains the incorrect statement
that the ET is carried to orbit already on each shuttle flight. In reality
the ET is released on a suborbital trajectory and carrying it the rest of
the way to orbit will cost propellant, which is something that most of the
remaining flights (ISS assembly flights packed to capacity) cannot spare.
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