A time-lapse
video of the ISS as seen during a fly-around by Shuttle
Discovery
after undocking on March 27, 2009. This mission delivered
and installed the final
set of solar panels.
This page looks at technologies of systems for space
based activities such as satellites, space stations,
etc.
Telecommunication
satellites in the geostationary belt.
Enlargements available at e-Sax.com.
More satellite info available at
Analytical Graphics' Satellite
database &
Spacecraft Digest.
DLR
- Robotik und Mechatronik Institute - involved
in several space robotics projects, including
the capture of unpowered spacecraft not designed
for it and which may be tumbling.
NASA SHARP: developing ceramic materials
that maintain their shapes and strengths at temperatures
far higher than what the shuttle tiles can withstand.
Also, they are much less fragile than the tiles.
Intended to allow for sharp edged vehicle structures
rather than the bulbous, high-drag shapes of the
Shuttle and other lifting bodies.
Space
Access 2008 Propellant Depot Panel - Selenian
Boondocks - Mar.31.08 - includes panel slide
presentations from Jon Goff of Masten space, Rand
Simberg of Transterrestrial Musings and also of
Wyoming Space and Information Systems, Dallas
Bienhoff of Boeing, and Frank Zegler of ULA. Slides:
Master
thesis in architecture report by Janek Kozicki
in Poland on the design of a Mars base using inflatable
structures. It's not been translated yet but the
graphics are fairly understandable.
[Update: A reader in the comments points out
that the ISS configuration linked to below is
an old one. Here is the this
statement released by the ISS heads of agency.]
