Timeline for Why do two Starships dock in such a manner their heat shields face opposite sides?
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| Oct 17, 2019 at 21:47 | answer | added | Slarty | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 17, 2019 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/1184891930880155650 | ||
| Oct 17, 2019 at 0:46 | comment | added | uhoh | It's a science demonstration; crazy CEO wants to make a giant Crookes radiometer | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 19:02 | comment | added | Seth Kurkowski | I don't think the September 2019 update gave us enough information to answer this. Both variants are still in development so all we can do is guess. I suggest we hold off answering this till we are given an explanation of some sort from SpaceX themself. | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 18:22 | comment | added | Chris B. Behrens | An observation - this would make the bells of the vacuum engines line up with the aft cargo doors, assuming that the tanker configuration is the same. Does it make sense to fuel a Raptor through the bell? | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 18:02 | comment | added | asdfex | This seems to me like the convenient orientation to fit in- and outlets of fuel and oxidizer together. I don't know how they are located exactly, but it seems reasonable if we assume both ships are identical from their internal structures. | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 17:41 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | I note that in this configuration, the guidance systems of the two spacecraft agree on the meaning of +/- pitch and roll, but not yaw, while if their tops were aligned, they would agree on +/- yaw, but not pitch or roll. I don't know if that's relevant. | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 16:37 | history | asked | Vishnu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |