Timeline for answer to Could they free up a docking port on ISS by undocking the emergency vehicle and letting it float next to the station for a little while by Organic Marble
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| Sep 11, 2024 at 21:42 | comment | added | Ogre Psalm33 | Unless your crew return vehicle happens to be a Boeing Starliner with multiple failures making it unsafe for return. But I would think this is definitely the exception to the rule. arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/… | |
| Sep 9, 2024 at 20:14 | comment | added | Darth Pseudonym | @MarkMorganLloyd Doesn't really matter. If one of your lifeboat capsules was out on the end of an arm or floating autonomously, the evacuation procedure in case of an emergency suddenly goes from a few minutes of "everyone go to your assigned hatch and get in" to a complicated process of launching one lifeboat, then maneuvering the second capsule to that dock and securing it, then finally boarding and leaving. It's not going to be a few minutes, you're talking about like half an hour if not more. It makes that capsule just not a lifeboat anymore, which defeats the whole purpose. | |
| Sep 9, 2024 at 11:33 | comment | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | @ErinAnne Hence anything undocked would either have to have autonomous (re-)docking capability, or crew with sufficient provisions on board. Boeing: "Give us six months to plan and test that." SpaceX: "We can organise that overnight, and if it fails we'll have collected useful data from the attempt." | |
| Sep 9, 2024 at 11:05 | comment | added | Erin Anne♦ | @MarkMorganLloyd only venicles meant to be grappled have the grapple fixture. Thus far no vehicles have had grapple fixtures and also been able to dock, unless Shuttle had fixtures for rescue contingencies that I'm not aware of | |
| Sep 9, 2024 at 7:52 | comment | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | Can vehicles intended to dock be handled by the standard end effectors on the arm, or are these only provided on modules intended to be berthed? | |
| Sep 8, 2024 at 22:49 | vote | accept | Miss Understands | ||
| Sep 8, 2024 at 16:32 | history | answered | Organic Marble | CC BY-SA 4.0 |