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on Thursday June 13 2019, @11:47PM
from the just-*how*-small-is-"very-small"? dept.
from the just-*how*-small-is-"very-small"? dept.
India plans to establish its own "very small" space station in the next decade as the country gears up for a first manned mission beyond earth.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Sivan said Thursday that the ambitious project would follow a successful launch of a manned space flight scheduled by 2022.
"Our space station is going to be very small... useful to carry out experiments," Sivan told reporters in New Delhi.
"We are not having a big plan of sending humans on tourism and other things," he added.
OK, but if a guy named Khan Noonien Singh takes over the project, then what?
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Friday June 14 2019, @03:18AM (1 child)
The BFR/Starship will have a pressurized volume greater than the entire ISS. Just send the spaceship up, and you have a space station. Another Starship can be used to refuel it, and that fuel can counteract atmospheric drag.
It will almost certainly have a docking port so that it could be attached at the ISS. But instead of doing that, you could have a "tube hallway" that attaches to multiple Starships. 32 Starships in a 2x2x8 formation... why not?
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday June 14 2019, @09:21PM
Attach them together, refuel, light that candle and go explore !