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#180
by
FutureSpaceTourist
on 03 Apr, 2017 05:59
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#181
by
Chris Bergin
on 03 Apr, 2017 13:08
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#182
by
FutureSpaceTourist
on 03 Apr, 2017 16:12
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#183
by
catdlr
on 04 Apr, 2017 02:48
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Boeing Starliner Emergency Egress System TestcollectSPACE
Published on Apr 3, 2017
http://collectSPACE.com — A team of engineers recently tested a newly installed emergency egress system at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to prepare for crew launches for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket, which will boost astronauts to the International Space Station, will have many safely elements built into the systems.
The Starliner emergency egress system operates a lot like a zip line, with four egress cables connecting at level 12 of the crew access tower to a landing zone about 1,300 feet away from the launch vehicle. Five individual seats on four separate lines can transport up to 20 people off the tower in the unlikely event there is an emergency on the launch pad.
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#184
by
clevelas
on 04 Apr, 2017 17:02
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I'm trying to envision a situation where that system is needed. I would want it to go WAY faster than that if I were in an emergency.
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#185
by
Lars-J
on 04 Apr, 2017 17:55
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I'm trying to envision a situation where that system is needed. I would want it to go WAY faster than that if I were in an emergency.
Indeed, but perhaps this was just a first test run. I expected something twice as fast.
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#186
by
OM72
on 04 Apr, 2017 18:03
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Likely there is some sort of brake that can control the speed.
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#187
by
SWGlassPit
on 04 Apr, 2017 19:02
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I'm trying to envision a situation where that system is needed. I would want it to go WAY faster than that if I were in an emergency.
Example made up off the top of my head: hypergol leak while hatch is open. Not necessarily an immediate boom, but toxic atmosphere, and you want to get out of there expeditiously.
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#188
by
Jim
on 04 Apr, 2017 19:05
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I'm trying to envision a situation where that system is needed. I would want it to go WAY faster than that if I were in an emergency.
Slow leak.
A problem with GSE
Any situation where an abort off the pad is over doing it.
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#189
by
ZachS09
on 04 Apr, 2017 20:09
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This slidewire system actually reminds me of the one at Launch Complex 34 during the early Apollo missions. Not the basket version, but the type where the astronauts hooked their suits to the slidewire before escaping.
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#190
by
arachnitect
on 06 Apr, 2017 02:19
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#191
by
okan170
on 06 Apr, 2017 20:42
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Rocket Launch 360: Atlas V Starliner
3,2,1...liftoff! Take a trip to the International Space Station aboard Boeing's Starliner capsule after launch on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V. Walk across the launch pad, experience the view from the top of the Crew Access Tower and get ready to give your go as you prepare for launch and your time on station. Go Atlas V! Go Centaur! Go Starliner!
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#192
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 07 Apr, 2017 06:04
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Nice video, but PMA-3 is at the wrong location!
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#193
by
SWGlassPit
on 07 Apr, 2017 17:45
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I mean, if you're gonna be that pedantic, the solar arrays won't be pointed like that either. They'd be feathered to avoid being plumed by visiting vehicle thrusters.
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#194
by
obi-wan
on 07 Apr, 2017 19:29
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Well, how about real mistakes, like saying you'll be at ISS "a few minutes" after orbit insertion? (and couldn't Boeing spring for more than one suited subject on Starliner for launch?)
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#195
by
Chris Bergin
on 07 Apr, 2017 21:51
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#196
by
jacqmans
on 08 Apr, 2017 08:17
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An engineer works the switch to power on a Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft inside Boeing's Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the first time "Spacecraft 1," as the individual Starliner is known, was powered up. It is being assembled for use during a pad abort test that will demonstrate the Starliners' ability to lift astronauts out of danger in the unlikely event of an emergency. Later flight tests will demonstrate Starliners in orbital missions to the station without a crew, and then with astronauts aboard. The flight tests will preview the crew rotation missions future Starliners will perform as they take up to four astronauts at a time to the orbiting laboratory in order to enhance the research taking place there.
Photo credit: Boeing
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#197
by
jacqmans
on 08 Apr, 2017 08:17
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An engineer monitors a Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft inside Boeing's Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the first time "Spacecraft 1," as the individual Starliner is known, was powered up. It is being assembled for use during a pad abort test that will demonstrate the Starliners' ability to lift astronauts out of danger in the unlikely event of an emergency. Later flight tests will demonstrate Starliners in orbital missions to the station without a crew, and then with astronauts aboard. The flight tests will preview the crew rotation missions future Starliners will perform as they take up to four astronauts at a time to the orbiting laboratory in order to enhance the research taking place there.
Photo credit: Boeing
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#198
by
FutureSpaceTourist
on 12 Apr, 2017 17:31
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#199
by
ZachS09
on 13 Apr, 2017 16:46
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Well, how about real mistakes, like saying you'll be at ISS "a few minutes" after orbit insertion? (and couldn't Boeing spring for more than one suited subject on Starliner for launch?)
You make a good point. How is it possible for Starliner to reach the ISS similar to Soyuz's 6-hour profile?
