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The official renders suggest that an arm is attached onto the Hab-1 during launch. There were two possible alternative scenarios:
It might be also possible that the arm is instead the reused Canadarm2 from the ISS, although this is from older plans in 2020, not sure if they will go through with...
Yeah, docking is impossible on attached objects in Orbiter's current programming. What I meant previously was that simply set all berthing/docking ports as DOCKS, while only the grapple points the ones set as ATTACHMENTS. Like this one:
Theoretically in this setup, both parts will automatically...
I guess the easiest route is that let the arm grapple the attachment point on the PMA, then position it in a way that when it is released, it will automatically dock to a target port
The solar arrays from the render look like a lot similar to that of the iROSAs of the ISS and those from DART. Maybe @BrianJ's code for the DART addon would be a great help for this
There's also the ROSA array found in @Donamy's SpaceX CRS-11 payloads addon that is coded in Spacecraft3.DLL as...
Yeah the PPTM has two common berthing mechanisms on both ends, with one being occupied by a PMA. Based on current renders, this one seems to be permanently attached unlike the second PMA of Hab-1. Hypothetically it could be detached anytime they'd like though, just not on the current plans atm
Would be nice if the RMS can move the PMA to one of the side ports as Hab-2 arrives....then relocates it towards the latter module's other end. So yeah, either an attached object or a docked vessel will do
Looks like it's going to get a similar scenario from when the crew of Soyuz T-14 had to depart Salyut 7 early due to their commander, Vladimir Vasyutin, got terribly sick
The design of Axiom's solar arrays looked like they are ROSAs. Similar to the iROSAs that are currently attached over the main panels of the ISS and those from DART
I guess we don't see any sign yet that Axiom would make a launch contract with another aerospace company than SpaceX soon. I'm wondering if the long-fairing option would be used for a regular Falcon 9 though (or would it be somehow aerodynamically unstable if it did?)
Still, Vulcan Centaur...
Looks like Axiom would likely launch their longer modules on other rockets (Vulcan Centaur perhaps?) assuming that the planned longer fairings of Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy weren't manufactured yet, and only reserved for the core of the Lunar Gateway.
As for AxPPTM, it's more likely that the launch...
By the time AxHab-1 launches, the AxPPTM will be separated from the ISS, carrying along with it the racks from the old station that NASA (and probably ESA and JAXA) would like to save before the ISS is deorbited
On Axiom's rough timeline, should be happening about 9 months after AxPPTM launches
In this version of the ISS, Axiom will still be berthed here, on the nadir port of Harmony. On the renders of Axiom in YouTube, the radiator and solar array will remain stowed until it is detached from the ISS
Side note: Ever since I've played Orbiter in 2015, I'm not sure why does that...
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