Thanks! The diagram you posted for SZ-1 appears to show solar arrays on the orbital module, but not deployed. Did SZ-1 have functioning solar arrays on the orbital module?
Appreciate the slides, but it is more convenient to package them in one file, like the one attached here.
Thanks! The diagram you posted for SZ-1 appears to show solar arrays on the orbital module, but not deployed. Did SZ-1 have functioning solar arrays on the orbital module?
As far I know SZ-1 Orbital Module was more a mock-up rather than something fully functional (like the SZ-2 ones).
I found one tiny mistake in your presentation.
On slide 17 you state that Tiangong 1 (and Shenzou) use the APAS 89 docking system. But in fact it is the Chinese APAS system based on the APAS 89.
First I thought the chinese system was APAS 95, but after some googeling I discovered that that was the Space Shuttle version.
This site
http://www.americaspace.org/?p=9268, states that china is using an adapted version of the APAS 89 (Shuttle- MIR / Buran APAS).
And this NASA document
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110010964_2011009594.pdf about ISS docking and berthing mechanisms, contains a graph on page 5 where all developed docking systems are represented (by there acronyms). On this graph the Chinese APAS system is called Shenzou / APAS 2010.
So the uses docking system on Tiangong-1 and the Shenzou crafts are Chinese APAS ore APAS 2010 (flowing NASA).
