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Does the ISS team plan cargo flights when at half crew on purpose?
While I don't have a complete answer I thought I'd share what I've found in the hope that someone can come up with something better.
I can find nothing online about exactly how and why the visiting ...
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Who can now resupply the ISS?
You forgot HTV, the Japanese vehicle that has a fairly large payload.
It has a planned flight Aug 15, 2015. There are several more HTV flights planned on the manifest.
Progress is due to fly again ...
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is a re-usable cygnus possible?
The original proposal for Cygnus included three variants, all utilizing a common Service Module. Attached to the Service Module would be one of three different cargo modules
Pressurized Cargo Module (...
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is a re-usable cygnus possible?
(for the purposes of this answer, "Cygnus" refers to the version of the vehicle that was ultimately produced, using the pressurized cargo module, and not the other variants that used the ...
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is a re-usable cygnus possible?
You could theoretically, but it'd be a lot of work, basically a new spacecraft. It'd need a heat shield, other heat protection, and the ability to fly aerodynamically. By the time all of this is taken ...
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Was anything special done for the Cygnus OA-9 launch to give it so much extra fuel?
It seems to me that they realized that the spacecraft had far more delta-v then was required, and that they did have enough power to do station change missions. Source.
“We actually started ...
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Who can now resupply the ISS?
The Chinese might come to help with their Long-March launcher and Shenzhou spacecraft, which is very similar to the Soyuz spacecraft so it should be compatible. Only Russia and China launch humans to ...
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What "advanced computer capable of faster processing and data compression" is the S. S. Katherine Johnson carrying? (Cygnus NG-15)
From what I understand, the fundamental idea behind the Spaceborne Computer is to forego most of the expensive, time-consuming, one-off, bespoke hardware modifications commonly used for radiation ...
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