Re: Sure
No, but they are making advances in habitat diameters. For instance, let's pretend that Bigelow Aerospace builds an inflatable habitat with suitable atmosphere (basically, a spacecraft dock). Piece together your mirror by hand. Depressurize the dock and launch.
Inflatable habitats give you maybe 1.5x or 1.7x the diameter of regular habitats. So let's say that a space dock launched on the Ares V would have a max diameter of 12 meters x 1.7 = 20 meters.
Originally posted by pchang
The problem is that working by hand in space is pretty tough. Last time I tried the spacesuit gloves, it was very hard for me to manipulate tools (compared to no gloves). Perhaps they have made advances in spacesuits since then.
The problem is that working by hand in space is pretty tough. Last time I tried the spacesuit gloves, it was very hard for me to manipulate tools (compared to no gloves). Perhaps they have made advances in spacesuits since then.
Inflatable habitats give you maybe 1.5x or 1.7x the diameter of regular habitats. So let's say that a space dock launched on the Ares V would have a max diameter of 12 meters x 1.7 = 20 meters.
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