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Why aren't the radiators on the ISS straight?
From the horse's (Vought) mouth, the angle created between each panel and its corresponding scissor beam (20°) is to "provide structural stiffness":
The deployment is achieved by rotating ...
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Why aren't the radiators on the ISS straight?
This is a scissor mechanism, as used in lifts and pantographs. A fundamental property of the scissor mechanism geometry is that it cannot "open completely" (90* rotation of members) due to ...
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Why aren't the radiators on the ISS straight?
The radiators are jointed because they were launched folded up into a flat stack.
This screenshot from the official NASA visualization tool DOUG shows one of the radiators partially retracted.
This ...
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How close was the ISS to running out of supplies after the failure of CRS-7?
Hobbes' answer to How long can a 2 person crew survive on ISS totally cut from Earth? has links to articles that include NASA press releases from around that time.
In Progress Failure Puts Burden on ...
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What is the relationship between the power supply system and the thermal control system?
If my previous reasoning is correct, they would have to take over
100,000 J per second from the air.
All the heat resulting from the use of electricity does not end up in the cabin air. A lot of the ...
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How many printed novels have been in space to date?
I did some research and even though I couldn’t find an exact number I did find a handful of books brought by different astronauts into space. These were:
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy&...
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At what wavelengths and for what particle types have astronomical objects been imaged or at least directionally resolved from the ISS?
Not claiming to be exhaustive, but there are/were:
MAXI, is a soft X-ray all-sky monitor (0.7-20 keV)
AMS, is a cosmic ray detector
CALET, is again a cosmic ray detector working in synergy with AMS
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