RE: Station-building: a vessel proposal

["Felipe Comparini" <fcompari@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, dragonfly is a space tug. You mention the Zvezda module. I mention
you the Kvant-1 and Kvant-2. Both launched with a proton rocket and a
space tug attached to them, wich was discarded after docking to Mir. You
can see this on this site
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/mir_kvant.html

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Christopher Secord [mailto:secord@compuserve.com] 
> Enviado el: Thursday, December 05, 2002 8:06 PM
> Para: orbiter@firedrake.org
> Asunto: Re: Station-building: a vessel proposal
> 
> 
> At 09:31 AM 12/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>  >get the payload up to the station's orbit, where the Dragonfly will 
> takeover.
> 
>  >Basically, I just think that since the Dragonfly is 
> intended to do the bulk  >of the construction work
> 
> This is the part that I don't understand.  In the real world, 
> we either 
> send an unmanned module that docks itself to the station, for 
> example the 
> Zvezda module pictured here: 
> http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/assembly/ht
ml/s106e5056.html

or if delivering people anyway, just use the Space Shuttle.  What
exactly 
is the dragonfly for?

It actually uses more fuel since it has to go from the station to the
newly 
delivered module and then bring the module back to the station.


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