Timeline for What would be required for Orion to ferry astronauts to the ISS?
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| Aug 26, 2019 at 3:39 | comment | added | Joshua | You know, you could do the orbital insertion with the service module engine. Makes getting rid of the booster more predictable. | |
| Dec 7, 2014 at 0:49 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | Looking at Wikipedia, I think it just barely adds up; 28t to 200km LEO on D4H, Orion is 21t CM+SM and takes up to 8t service module propellant -- so we can't quite bring a full tank. Only a couple hundred ms of delta-v are needed to raise from 200km to ISS at 400km, though. | |
| Dec 7, 2014 at 0:28 | comment | added | geoffc | Is D4-H really powerful enough to launch Orion, with a Service module? I do not think Orion by itself has sufficient impulse and control to dock to the ISS. If you need the SM, D4H is not powerful enough. | |
| Dec 6, 2014 at 19:24 | vote | accept | Jerard Puckett | ||
| Dec 6, 2014 at 1:28 | history | answered | Russell Borogove | CC BY-SA 3.0 |