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Topic: [Discuss] Space Adventures SpaceX mission
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Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-18-2020 10:13 AM
   
Please use this topic to discuss Space Adventures' free-flyer mission using SpaceX's Crew Dragon. |
SkyMan1958
Member Posts: 1108
From: CA.
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 02-18-2020 11:30 AM
Since SpaceX is talking twice the height of the ISS that would put it roughly at 800 kilometers or 500 miles above the Earth's surface. I wonder if that's an elliptical orbit or a circular orbit. Does anyone know in theory what the highest circular orbit Falcon 9 could launch crewed Dragon to?This seems like a logical intermediary step if SpaceX is indeed intent on doing the "DearMoon" mission. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-18-2020 01:38 PM
Space Adventures' president Tom Shelley said the target for this mission is like Gemini 11, above 1,000 kilometers. Gemini 11 reached a maximum altitude of 853 miles (1,373 km). |
SkyMan1958
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posted 02-18-2020 02:48 PM
Thank you for the info Robert!I would assume that at that altitude, courtesy of the Van Allen belts, the spacecraft would also be a testing ground for the Starship's radiation protection for going outside of the Earth's magnetosphere. I seem to remember that the first supply Dragon capsule had issues when exposed to the South Atlantic Anomaly. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-18-2021 02:58 PM
Space Adventures President Tom Shelley told AFP that the company's flight with SpaceX is, at least for now, not going forward. In early 2020, Space Adventures announced a partnership with SpaceX to send four people into Earth's orbit, reaching an altitude higher than the ISS, but there were few updates since."Ultimately our reservation with SpaceX expired and that's not a mission that we are going to be executing in the immediate future," Shelley said, but did not rule out future partnerships with the company. |
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