Questions tagged [space-station]
A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew, which is designed to remain in space (most commonly in low Earth orbit) for an extended period of time. For questions about specific space stations (e.g. the ISS, MIR, Salyut 1-7, Tiangong or Skylab), please use corresponding tags.
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Did or do space station engineers need to worry about angular momentum stored in circulating fluids?
One of the ISS' main uses is to provide a long duration microgravity environment for a wide variety of experiments. For some experiments residual acceleration needs to be much smaller than average.
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Are ferrofluidic seals used in spaceflight? Main applications? Human-rated?
Comments below this answer have inspired this quesiton.
Wikipedia's Ferrofluidic seal sez:
Ferrofluid-sealed feedthroughs routinely operate in environments including ultra-high vacuum (below 10⁻⁸ ...
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Would Bigelow space stations work if rotated to achieve 1G simulated gravity?
Would Bigelow's proposed space stations work if two of them are connected by a tether and rotated to simulate gravity of 1G (or how much)? Would they hold up structurally? Would there be other ...
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What particles does the space station have to worry about?
I've heard things like "even a paint chip can damage the space station" and I wanted to know to what extent that was true. I imagine the best characterization is what is the minimum momentum or ...
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What programming language will the lunar gateway run on? How much of its code will be inherited from existing ISS components?
What programming language will be used for the main elements of the lunar gateway?
Will programmatical components be inherited from the ISS? If so, to what extent?
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Have there been any studies of designs beyond the basic elevator in a rotating wheel space station?
In the 1977 NASA publication, "Space Settlements, A Design Study," exploring the feasibility of the Stanford Torus
it says "Elevators could also be used to travel through the spokes to the far side ...
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Do space stations have standardized officer designations for crew?
I have some anecdotal information. The ISS has a commander, and I noticed here that it had a Flight Engineer, and in this article (found here) I see that Skylab had a Science Pilot.
Do space stations ...
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How many tons of water is needed to surround ISS's living modules, so the rate of radiation exposure will be the same as on the surface of Earth?
If I understand correctly, it wasn't done because it's very expensive ($ per lbs) and there are no launch systems powerful enough for that?
Also, could you please provide formulas and calculations? I ...
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What is the response to the criticism of LOP-G project by Zubrin and others?
Many people have aired criticism of the project (see here for some).
Was there any response from the project's team or NASA regarding these criticisms?
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Where to stream online Tiangong 1 descent?
Are there going to be good free live streams of the descent and if so is there much to be seen anyway?
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Did Tianzhou-2 have a TLE before docking with Tianhe 8 hours after launch? Which is the 2nd stage rocket body and roughly how soon will it reenter?
Clicking on https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/stations.txt I get
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Could "days" on the space Station be made shorter to accomodate sleep patterns?
I understand that astronauts on the Space Station only tend to get six hours of sleep per "night". That made me wonder, since the day is arbitrary in orbit, has anyone considered a day of 24*...
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Orbital Strap-on Boosters?
Have there been any proposals to launch a "space station" type of assembly into LEO, then send up some engines to get it to be able to move again? Take for instance something akin to the ISS, but much ...
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Centrifugal Space Station design
If a Space Station designed around centrifugal forces being essential for gravity was to be constructed similar to the fans of a helicopter blade like the image below, how would it differ from a ...
