Re: Station-building: a vessel proposal

[David Henderson <orbiter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Roger Burton West wrote:

> >I'm thinking we should develop these in tandem to use common modules. ie.
> >maybe have a common payload bay geometry. Mine's presently 11x8x8 useable
> >and 13x4x4 usable (tapers at the top) and a ~12 tonne lift weight.
> Those are both referring to the same bay, yes? I make the minimum sizes:

Yep, the taper at the top just means you can't fill it all with 8m
modules.

> Module1: 4.4 x 4.18563 x 9.989 x 8000kg
> Module2: 4.99627 x 4.99326 x 4.99 x 4000kg
> Dragonfly: 7.19333 x 7.3816 x 14.7651 x 6500-10000kg
> 
> and was therefore thinking in terms of a 2-module side-by-side bay...
> I'll see what I can do about keeping roughly to these constraints,
> though, particularly for the fuel pod.

Not a problem, I can change the dimension of the fairing again. Can't lift
any more than 12tonnes at present, though. I wonder if anyone's made an
Energia yet? :)

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