ISS Assembly renderings - Spaceflight Now

[kane007]

Spaceflight Now and William Harwood have compiled this detailed, yet simple, ISS space shuttle assemblage schedule.<br /><br /><b>We have assembled a comprehensive manifest showing the remaining space shuttle missions through the program's 2010 retirement. The flights will complete the orbital construction of the International Space Station. The listing also illustrates how the outpost will grow over the next few years.</b><br /><br />I'll post a copy of the GIF for each year plus a link.<br /><br />Original giff in its entirety is available here.<br /><br />2006 Manifest

 

[kane007]

2007 manifest<br />

 

[kane007]

2008 manifest

 

[kane007]

2009 manifest

 

[kane007]

2010 manifest

 

[geminivi]

Thank you for the photos, very interesting. Makes me think, when looking at the final rendering, if the US will rethink its ideas on abandoning the station in 2017. ISS will be a helluva an outpost in space. CEV will fly, but might be more often to the ISS than to the moon.

 

[lampblack]

<font color="yellow">Spaceflight Now and William Harwood have compiled this detailed, yet simple, ISS space shuttle assemblage schedule.</font><br /><br />Thank goodness for Bill Harwood. He always has detail that just isn't easily available anywhere else in the public domain. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>

 

[nacnud]

It's gona take congress to step in with a bucket load of cash for the US not to abandon the ISS in 2016. It might well be worn out by then anyway.

 

[vt_hokie]

By 2016?! It had better not be! Given all that we've invested in it, and the fact that it won't even be complete until 2010, it would be insane to abandon it that soon.

 

[mattblack]

Agreed. They need to get the most use out of that sucker as they can, including doing as much science as possible. "Build it and they will come" might be the call. Perhaps a decent research budget might start looking attractive once ISS is able to support six people. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>One Percent of Federal Funding For Space: America <strong><em><u>CAN</u></em></strong> Afford it!!  LEO is a <strong><em>Prison</em></strong> -- It's time for a <em><strong>JAILBREAK</strong></em>!!</p> </div>

 

[geminivi]

What about those bidders for the COTS contracts and how does it sit with them that US involvement in the ISS ends in 2016-2017 just as they are getting used to supplying the ISS? I doubt any COTS winner will be operational before 2010, so how do they make an attractive investment if they must shutdown in 2016?

 

[baktothemoon]

The ISS has been a catastrophie. Next time we need a space station, we do it ourselves and call Mr. Bigelow.

 

[kane007]

From SpaceDaily<br /><br />Program managers and the six-member crew of the next space shuttle Atlantis flight will participate in a series of media briefings Friday, Aug. 11, at the Johnson Space Center, Houston. With the remaining shuttle missions, NASA will embark on a series of flights as difficult as any in history to complete the International Space Station.<br /><br />"The flights ahead will be the most complex and challenging we've ever carried out for construction of the International Space Station in orbit," said Mike Suffredini, NASA station program manager. "The station literally becomes a new spacecraft with each assembly mission, and that will be true starting this year with dramatic changes in its cooling and power systems, habitable volume, utilization capability as well as its appearance."<br /><br />The station is nearly halfway through assembly. The next four flights will bring new truss segments, massive structural girders, to the complex. The new segments will increase the mass of the station by almost 40 tons. Two of the trusses include huge sets of solar array wings, totaling more than 17,000 square feet and more than 130,000 solar cells. The new segments include giant rotary joints to allow the tips of the station "backbone" to move as the massive panels track the sun.<br /><br />Together, the new arrays will add 50 kilowatts of power for the complex. The increased electrical power will set the stage for the addition of European and Japanese laboratories that will far surpass any previous research capability in space.<br /><br />The installation of the new truss segments and unfurling of the arrays require unprecedented robotic operations. Those operations will use the shuttle and station's Canadian-built mechanical arms to delicately maneuver school bus-sized station components into place. The operations will rely heavil

 

[erioladastra]

If you would like to see it animated...<br /><br /><br />http://www.tietronix.com/anim/pao/s1A1.html <br /><br /><br />

 

[kane007]

A most excellent find, thankyou eriodastra.

 

[viper101]

Very awesome. Thanks!

 

[kane007]

Have captured it - with Movies Extractor Scout - and converted it to a screensaver - @ 12MB - so still thinking of uploading it for anyone to download.

 

[vt_hokie]

That is very cool!

 

[georgeniebling]

The solar panels that roll back up towards the end of the animation .... will they remain rolled" or could they be re-deployed for additional power?

 

[erioladastra]

I assume you are referring to P6... Currently it is at the top of the Z1 but the arrays will be rolled up and the module reloacted to the port end of the truss where it was planned to be (hence the name P6). There they will be rolled out. Well, at least that is the plan - with images of the HST arrays in my mind, I will be amazed if they really roll up. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[kane007]

Completed uploading that Flash Media ISS Assembly sequence as a converted screensaver.<br /><br />DOWNLOAD IT HERE.<br /><br />I've had to zip it up - 11MB - as SendMeFile doesn't support file extension .SCR.<br /><br />Extract it to your C:windowssystem32 directory. Locate it, right click on the ISS Assembly.scr and select INSTALL. <br />Voila.

 

[willyb1]

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[willyb1]

Would very much like to have iss assembly screensaver <br />When I click on the link it says "403 Forbidden"<br />Is this something on my end or is there a problem somewhere else? Thanks

 

[telfrow]

I get the same message. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <strong><font color="#3366ff">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild.</font> - <font color="#3366ff"><em>Tennyson</em></font></strong> </div>

 

[kane007]

Theres a problem with the host. They've stipped it. I've found another host. Click this link - http://www.uploading.com/files/R539CVUS/ISS_Assembly.scr.html<br /><br />At the upper right is a red <font color="red">DOWNLOAD FILE HERE</font> Below this is a <font color="black">click here to download</font><br /><br />Or just bypass all the rubbish and download HERE<br /><br />I would suggest saving it and once done, run it. If you are happy then right click on the file and select INSTALL, so as to install as one of your screensavers. <br /><br />Currently the link works fine.