They need a drone to go and pick these dropped items. How much fun that would be!
an R2D2 unit!
Astronauts drop tool bag into orbit that you can see with binoculars
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Re: Astronauts drop tool bag into orbit that you can see with binoculars
#92Anyone got a link to an official report detailing what happened? The article is kinda light on details, but I assume this is a major mishap that can only happen if multiple things go wrong simultaneously? Everything m they do up there is a precisely choreographed dance so it would be interesting to read a technical report on that.
Yes it's a bit light on details. But they do point out the most important facts, namely what gender the astronauts are and that it has not been officially confirmed whether the tool box contained a 10mm wrench. Personally, that's everything I needed to know about the situation.
Imagine being upset by the mere mention of a persons gender. Christ you people are insufferable. Surely there are actually important things to be angry about.
Re: Astronauts drop tool bag into orbit that you can see with binoculars
#93Anyone got a link to an official report detailing what happened? The article is kinda light on details, but I assume this is a major mishap that can only happen if multiple things go wrong simultaneously? Everything m they do up there is a precisely choreographed dance so it would be interesting to read a technical report on that.
Yes it's a bit light on details. But they do point out the most important facts, namely what gender the astronauts are and that it has not been officially confirmed whether the tool box contained a 10mm wrench. Personally, that's everything I needed to know about the situation.
An all-female space walk and the last time a toolbag was lost it was a woman...just saying...really plays into stereotypes of women around tools. But it was reported the male astronauts couldn't find a can opener in the kitchen drawer so even stevens!
Re: Astronauts drop tool bag into orbit that you can see with binoculars
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
And also, a lot of it is low volume stuff, and fixed costs in manufacturing are huge. The reason the tools you buy at the home improvement store are cheap is because the fixed costs are spread out over thousands to millions of units. Design/labor/fixturing/tooling/etc can be brutal for low volumes. If you want to build a single Lego, the tooling could cost you hundreds of thousand of dollars.
You think a Lego piece is expensive, you should see the total capital outlay required to make an apple pie from scratch!
details on the apple pie here:
https://recursiverecipes.schollz.com/recipe/apple-pie?amount...
discussion of that site:
Re: Astronauts drop tool bag into orbit that you can see with binoculars
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
But if you lose something from the ISS, couldn't you chuck the drone out the airlock of the ISS and get it back before it's gone very far?
A drone would potentially be an ISS damaging missile. It could cause a whole lot more problems than it might solve. Ever have your foot nailed by an RC car? That times 100. Also its propulsion gas could also setup oscillations in the station itself. So a lot of math would have to go into counteract this little bee flying around outside the station.
Yeah, for ISS specifically you probably just consider the bag lost and use backups until the next resupply, for "cheap enough" and zero risk.
ISS is in a rather low orbit, it requires quite a bit of upkeep (ha) to stay in space due to the tiny bit of atmospheric drag: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9482/how-long-woul...
That's true for everything else near that orbit, so the tool bag will probably burn up (well, re-enter anyway) in the atmosphere within a year or two, and be a complete non-issue after the next boost takes it to a permanently-different orbit.
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#97Anyone got a link to an official report detailing what happened? The article is kinda light on details, but I assume this is a major mishap that can only happen if multiple things go wrong simultaneously? Everything m they do up there is a precisely choreographed dance so it would be interesting to read a technical report on that.
Another bag was lost when an astronaut was cleaning up a mess from a grease gun - stuff happens!
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And what would that joke be?
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#99Anyone got a link to an official report detailing what happened? The article is kinda light on details, but I assume this is a major mishap that can only happen if multiple things go wrong simultaneously? Everything m they do up there is a precisely choreographed dance so it would be interesting to read a technical report on that.
Yes it's a bit light on details. But they do point out the most important facts, namely what gender the astronauts are and that it has not been officially confirmed whether the tool box contained a 10mm wrench. Personally, that's everything I needed to know about the situation.
Just need to use a Hermes berkin 35 for the toolbag and it will never be misplaced.