Premiere: space transportation robot automatically docks with space station

[Skybird]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7328816.stm

Automatically - nice! Obviously there went some thought into it's programming. :up:

They named it "Jules Verne" :)

[FIREWALL]

That is a great acheivment. :up: It makes deliverys, takes the garbage out. If it only did windows and floors. :D

[Steel_Tomb]

That is a great acheivment. :up: It makes deliverys, takes the garbage out. If it only did windows and floors. :D


If it did cooking, washing up and ironing too that would be nice :rotfl: :rotfl: ;)

[FIREWALL]

:rotfl: If it did all that and one... other thing. Women wouldn't be needed
in the Space program. :p

[Platapus]

hmm I thought the Progress M and the Progress M1 had the capability of autonomous flight and docking?

[Skybird]

hmm I thought the Progress M and the Progress M1 had the capability of autonomous flight and docking?I don't know what differs the Progress from the ATV, despite the fact that the ESA vehicle carries three times as much payload. for the topic headline, I simply referred to this passage in the article:

The European Space Agency's (Esa) station programme manager, Alan Thirkettle, said it was a great engineering achievement.
He told BBC News: "This is a first in the world - this is a fully automatic spacecraft that docked with the space station, totally under its own control, and that's never been done before by anybody at all; so from a purely technical point of view, it's really quite incredible."

[TLAM Strike]

An automated space freighter? Where's the fun in that?

I guess I'm just from that old school of thought that says that a space freighter should be crewed by ruff looking people with more guns than brains.
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/5931/serenityhk4.jpg

Ahh thats better... :rock:

[Steel_Tomb]

Firefly! Awesome show! Shame they cancelled it :cry:, Serenity was bloody good though :rock:. Gotta love the fleet battle with the Alliance Vs Reavers :arrgh!: Makes Star Wars look like a small skirmish.

[bookworm_020]

That is a great acheivment. :up: It makes deliverys, takes the garbage out. If it only did windows and floors. :D

If it did cooking, washing up and ironing too that would be nice :rotfl: :rotfl: ;)

It still doesn't make coffee in the morning!:nope:

[Blacklight]

Now someone will have to model this thing for Orbiter. :up:

[I-25]

hmm I thought the Progress M and the Progress M1 had the capability of autonomous flight and docking?

I think you have a point Platapus:hmm:

[XabbaRus]

Ah but this is a eurotrash collector (geddit eurotrash, maybe they should give it Antoine De Caune's ??spelling?? voice for something) the other one is Russian which is of course inferior. lol

Actually there is a good site on the Soyuz capsules and why they are the shape they are. Seems they are more advanced than the Apollo capsules when it comes to reentry.

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft.html

Take a look.

[TteFAboB]

Now someone will have to model this thing for Orbiter. :up:

The thing will model itself into Orbiter, automatically, as soon as they allow it to have some spare time.

[Skybird]

Now someone will have to model this thing for Orbiter. :up:

The thing will model itself into Orbiter, automatically, as soon as they allow it to have some spare time.

:lol:

[FIREWALL]

Least we not forget the BIG Cinema hit...


SPACE TRUCKERS ( Dennis Hopper)

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