BTW, the commentator says MLM will have CQ for a third Russian crew member, so no more sleeping in Node 2 for the Russians.
Quote from: aquarius on 04/30/2011 05:54 pmBTW, the commentator says MLM will have CQ for a third Russian crew member, so no more sleeping in Node 2 for the Russians.Yup - which will in turn allow a 4th USOS crewmember (7th ISS crewmember) to be present on ISS once the commercial vehicles come online with their extra seats. More crew time for science!
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/iss_fgb2.html#testsIn August 2011, the Director General of GKNPTs Khrunichev, Vladimir Nesterov, said that a prototype of the MLM module designed for electrical tests would be delivered to RKK Energia before the end of the month, despite technical issues associated with changes in design documentation. Are these good news or bad news?
May be this is a better threadQuotehttp://www.russianspaceweb.com/iss_fgb2.html#testsIn August 2011, the Director General of GKNPTs Khrunichev, Vladimir Nesterov, said that a prototype of the MLM module designed for electrical tests would be delivered to RKK Energia before the end of the month, despite technical issues associated with changes in design documentation. Are these good news or bad news?
Moving the MLM to Energia would indicate that launch was to happen within 18 months.
Quote from: Danderman on 08/10/2011 03:15 pm Moving the MLM to Energia would indicate that launch was to happen within 18 months.That means, if the delivering is NET April 2012, as reported on the NK forum, the launch will be NET December 2013.
photo_11-09-05.jpg is interesting, are those mockups for other modules or actual modules?
Why are the "space tug" based modules narrower on the inside than the Mir base block modules? As an outsider, it seems like there is not much useable space on the inside of the modules.
I had been under the impression that the MLM front (or is it rear?) would be a node with multiple docking ports for possible expansion - but there appears to be only one docking port. Is that right?
The end of the MLM which will dock to the ISS will have one Hybrid docking port.The opposite end of the MLM (which will face Nadir when it's on station) will have two docking ports - one standard cone for Soyuz/Progress dockings and later the multi-port Node Module, and one forward-facing APAS port for the MLM airlock.
Is the radial port for the airlock really APAS? At one time, it was probe and cone, back when this article was FGB-2, but now its a bit of mystery what mating system will be used for the airlock. Since the airlock is already in orbit, attached to Rassvet, there are no good photos of its docking mechanism, so its all a mystery to me.