The benefit of showing you can crash things - SpaceX picked to splash the ISS - Page 1
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author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 27, 2024, 01:29:02 pm
content: SpaceX have been contracted to bring down the ISS into the Pacific (hopefully!) early in the next decade:Quotehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnl02jl5pzno

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 27, 2024, 08:32:13 pm
content: So take a Falcon heavy, and run the middle core at low power, so you get it, along with the upper stage, which is basically an extra fuel tank with a docking adaptor, and get it to the ISS orbit. Then you do something not done since assembly, and start to move docking port, and attach the booster core there, and remove that module, moving the docking port into this now vacant position. Then the core stage does a deorbit burn, and aims to land semi softly at a point in the South Pacific, using the grid fins as long as they function to guide, and then using the reentry to burn all the parts up. Uses one per section, and the outer boosters return for reuse, dismantling the ISS over a period of a month or so, depending if they can keep the remaining parts of the ISS operating, though you can do a few dozen tons at a time.

author: ejeffrey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2024, 03:18:10 pm
content: Stolen from elsewhere: they could have just contracted Boeing to "definitely keep it in orbit" with the same result.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2024, 03:39:37 pm
content: I think the ISS is one of the best things that was built and its at least a good symbolic reason to try to maintain peace in the world.how about contracting the boiler makers union to put some reinforcement on it and keep it up thereAt this point the ISS is considered poorly engineered, because of its age. Usually all things welders work on are poorly engineered and they actually have to redo alot of engineering. Maybe it would just take a few strutstheir engineering analysis won't show them what some people banging on it with mallets and prybars can tell you (real world structural engineering)

author: Kim Christensen
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2024, 04:52:11 pm
content: Kerbals would have boosted it's orbit until they got aMunMoon encounter, and turned it into a Moon station.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2024, 04:56:54 pm
content: they need to develop the space contractor van, the space work bench and like stabilizers so they can work up there

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2024, 05:02:37 pm
content: Every kilo that reaches orbit has cost so much it seems very sad to see it come down again.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2024, 05:27:39 pm
content: Two hundred years from now deep divers will be wondering what the fuck is that thing on the Pacific ocean floor, how did it float on the water.

author: ejeffrey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2024, 05:38:32 pm
content: Quote from: coppice on June 28, 2024, 05:02:37 pmThe bright side is, launch cost per kg has gone down by more than 10x in that time.

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2024, 06:07:56 pm
content: Quote from: coppercone2 on June 28, 2024, 03:39:37 pmThen it symbolizes very nicely that we will build a new one, this time without russia.Quote from: ejeffrey on June 28, 2024, 03:18:10 pmOr sell it to some studio to turn it into a reality show.

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2024, 06:13:53 pm
content: Quote from: tszaboo on June 28, 2024, 06:07:56 pmBrilliant!A new "reality" show but this time we get to see who is allowed to leave that island in the sky and who will be forced to remain behind! I vote that we start by putting ALL of the Kardashians onto the station.