@@mathewferstl7042 Ah ok, then there's probably no source, and since the Deagon XL is as experimental as the deorbit vehicle I doubt it will actually share much.
So the current dragon trunk will be upgraded to a full service module. This is basically an orbital tug. Hopefully, they can find a way to refuel it, to be used in orbit.
@@favesongslist yeah yeah of course they will make a even longer starship and longer super heavy even tho they havent even finnished the v2 and nothing about the v3
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@@kevikiru most of the time he reads articles word for word. Then adds a little of his own 2 cents thats just another articles take. Still appreciate his work, don't have to read the articles myself.
No doubt? NASA is fuming because Artemis 3 has been repeatably delayed by Starship development delays! Now, mainly because of SpaceX Starship (not forgetting the lunar EVA suit, too!), NASAs launch date for Artemis 3 has been delayed even further from late 2026 to late 2027. This is dangerously close to the scheduled date given by China for their crewed mission to the Moon, 2029/30. And Elon Musks forecasts on dates for acheiving Starship milestone goals are notoriously unreliable. Only those fanatical SpaceX Fanboys give ANY credibility to the word of Elon Musk (their 'only hope'... sad!). That's why NASA have backup, the "Blue Origin" lunar lander from National Team; only three launches of15 tonnes each (one lander, two fuel modules), on New Glenn, direct all the way to GATEWAY, launching 2028/9.
Makes you wonder how much more they can reiterate on starship for the foreseeable future. The dragon needs to be upgraded in general added seats and propellant along with its size. Still eagerly waiting on a v2-v3 starship to build the next gen space station so we can really begin our space fairing journey. We should have broadcasted 0g sports on earth by now😂
Disposing of this much 'useful material' in space seems so wasteful. Those solar panels at minimum could be handed off to something else. Really, the main reason seems to be avoiding unexpected collisions and thus more space junk.
Every inch of the exterior is damaged and worn and radiation scoured and solar wind blown... it's not pristine and easily reused. There's already parts of the solar that don't work, due to damage. Calm down, things have to go to the junk yard eventually
Those solar panels are based on 90's tech and will have been in space for 20-30 years by the time they are deorbited. They are obsolete and long past the end of their life.
@@MaxFagin I guess that u missed the update that NASA did with the IROSA solar arrays. They are good for another 10 years. Expect ISS to be deorbited around 2035.
I wonder how hard it would be to reposition a docking component to allow 2 de-orbiting devices to be attached. If each device had redundancy built in and was designed to perform the task stand alone, then having 2 could provide far more granular control. I know this would be more expensive, but other than that, what am I missing? (I know there is so much I'm missing). Be kind.
A stripped down, lightweight cargo dragon, with a giant 'trunk' converted into propellant tanks with a ring of draco thrusters..... Sensible. :) Just don't drop the ISS on Western Australia this time.
Probably more hazardous to have folks on walks disconnecting all those old parts. Also, when assembled I think there was the Shuttle available to hold the loose module so they'd need a grabber and a pusher to get each separate module de-orbited. *All conjecture on my part, maybe someone has a better or more complete reason? Great question though!
I hope theres a further use for the craft - ie not one off --- like maybe easily modifiable to service the 'gateway' - like the ill fated dragon xl that never happenned.
I wonder what happened to the Russian plan to detach some of their modules to reuse them for a new space station... maybe they realized it wasn't such a good idea? I didn't read anything "official" about that.
I think it was just propaganda BS. The Russians don't have the money to do anything meaningful in space any more, and it's hard to see what reusing ancient, already faulty hardware was going to achieve.
@@RobertoMaurizzi nasa owns some of their modules but was designed and built by the Russians. Russia detaching and taking them forcefully would technically be space piracy
If the trunk can be modified into a service module, then why can't they use that principle to ferry people between Earth and lunar orbit? That would make the SLS + Orion redundant, save tens of billions
@@tomporter8849 E=½mv². deltaV dominates the energy equation. Doubling the mass doubles the energy needed to move an object but doubling the velocity quadruples the energy needed.
@@kazedcat Might be better using the rocket equation. Assumptions: Dragon's mass is 12 tonnes, this is based on the launch mass of a low earth-orbit mission. Draco thrusters exhaust velocity: 2900m/s Delta-V to match Orion: 1200m/s So initial total mass is: 12e^(1200/2900) = 18.2 tonnes; so 6 tonnes of additional propellant 18 tonnes is the tonnage the must be deployed onto a trans-lunar orbit by the launch vehicle. This may be within the capabilities of the Falcon Heavy. Now let's compares with the Deorbit Vehicle: I've found some sources that suggest ISS deorbit requires delta-V of 47m/s, if this is true then lets run the equation again. Assuming we still use Dracos, but this time its 400 tonnes of station that need shifting: 400e^(47/2900) = 406.5 tonnes. So 6 tonnes of additional propellant, comparable to what it takes for a free flying Dragon to match the delta-V of Orion.
@@kazedcat Might be better using the rocket equation. Assumptions: Dragon's mass is 12 tonnes, this is based on the launch mass of a low earth-orbit mission. Draco thrusters exhaust velocity: 2900m/s Delta-V to match Orion: 1200m/s So initial total mass is: 12e^(1200/2900) = 18.2 tonnes; so 6 tonnes of additional propellant 18 tonnes is the tonnage the must be deployed onto a trans-lunar orbit by the launch vehicle. This may be within the capabilities of the Falcon Heavy. Now let's compares with the Deorbit Vehicle: I've found some sources that suggest ISS deorbit requires delta-V of 47m/s, if this is true then lets run the equation again. Assuming we still use Dracos, but this time its 400 tonnes of station that need shifting: 400e^(47/2900) = 406.5 tonnes. So 6 tonnes of additional propellant, comparable to what it takes for a free-flying Dragon to match the delta-V of Orion.
Reducing mass is not very helpful. Halving the mass halves the energy needed but halving the velocity reduces the needed energy to a quarter so bleeding velocity using atmospheric drag is more effective.
Do you realize how much taxpayer money goes into this stuff? The government already acts like they have an unlimited budget and you want them to waste hundreds of millions or billions more just to put a telescope in a museum, that’s insаne.
@@ScottBFree Well Starship will fly up to grab something and come back down JUST to prove they can. May as well be part of the ISS rather then some dead satellite.
HEY, ALL READY A TUG BOAT RIGHT, or pusher. Add a lot more to it, expand off of that innicail design, turn it into a perminate robotic, fueler, several deplotable working arms, not from Canada, just kidding. Ion drive as well as huge fuel storage a big 30x30 pressurized work bay, robotic. But after all the investments and with a company like SPACEX, Musk might just produce a space work truck for anything that develops in the future it will be right there in orbit. for future endevors. I say they spend a million on what the have built which is a lot so you might as well develop a really good tug, work truck in orbit for a few dollars more.
@@kazedcatmore importantly, the Raptor engine uses cryogenic propellants that have absolutely no chance of lasting a couple years in orbit. Draco uses hypergolics which last much better.
Because the Earth orbits the sun at a little over 66,626 miles per hour. Anything on Earth or orbiting it is already going that speed. To fall into the sun, you have to break out of Earth's orbit and continue to cancel that. Different frames of reference. It's MUCH harder than simply slowing from the 17,500 miles per hour it takes to stay in low Earth orbit.
Play the original Kirbal Space Program and you can learn about orbital mechanics. It is much more difficult than you think, there is a reason they go to school and are some of the smartest people alive. Stay off drugs, pay attention in school... LEARN EVERYTHING you can so you don't make a silly suggestion like sending the ISS to the sun.
Why not to de orbit the station to the moon surface? It can be recycled later with a few missions. Recycling of the parts of the station will be much easier than to create such materials directly on the moon.
Taking a whole ISS to the Moon would required dozens of boosts from dozens of ships, that thing weights 300 tons, currently we have less than 200 tons of stuff that we left on the Moon
You should try checking the numbers before complaining. For every dollar NASA spends, about $10 in economic activity is created. At the end of the day, NASA isn't just free, but thanks to that $10 per $1 getting taxed, we're literally making money off NASA. Oh, and you should look up "NASA spinoffs". A right decent amount of our modern technology is due to NASA.
The near billion dollars we are wasting de-orbiting the ISS, could be used to raise it's orbit and maintain it there for years. Musk's star may be fading due to recent rash and unexplainable choices that do not reflect a stable mind.
Unassisted deorbit is free but lawsuit would rise to more than a billion dollars if it hit populated area Raising the ISS to a higher orbit is just delaying the inevitable due to its wear and tear and will be a yearly upkeep to any company. Safely deorbit the ISS cost a billion just once.
NASA is spending far less then half a billion on this program. What "rash and unexplainable choices"? The only news worthy thing he has done recently is at last support the best president in living memory.
But ships attached still have lifetimes --- i mean just about anything freezes at 4K or liquids boil if directly in sunlight. Though that maybe battery life i guess fir heating/cooling
