Бигелоу

[Василий Ратников]

Дмитрий Виницкий, где то я уже это слышал. А в теме про посадку ступеней, что советские ученые давно уже все посчитали. Не ну не смешно же уже. Есть компания которая имеет план развития инфраструктуры надувных модулей, она уже сама запускала несколько тестовых экземпляров на Днепре, сейчас следующий шаг, модуль на МКС. А мы такие - фу фу фу.

Если надувные модули уже с Востока-2 хорошо изучены то чего там РКК Энергия тратила миллиарды и годы, а по итогу так результат на орбите и не будет ? Зелен виноград ?
Зачем они начинали натурный эксперимент по экспозиции тестовых материалов на поверхности МКС ? Ведь Восток и деды уже давно все порешали ?

[SFN]

Дмитрий Виницкий пишет:
Надувные модули испытаны в космосе давным давно, начиная с полете того же Восхода-2 и того же Билетов. Данная конструкция выглядит отмазкой НАСА, чтобы поставить галочку для отчета перед Конгрессом.

А еще было его обещание запустить отель в 2015. Кроме того Бимкой он снова подогреет интерес к музею надувной космонавтики в Далласе.

[Дмитрий Виницкий]

Василий Ратников пишет:
РКК Энергия тратила миллиарды и годы, а по итогу так результат на орбите и не будет ? Зелен виноград  ?

Доказательств "годов и миллиардов" не ждать? НАСА, кстати, много раз хоронила надувные модули, начиная с "Фридома", так, для вашего развития. Миллиарды не потратили, но десятки миллионов закопали. 

[Дмитрий Виницкий]

SFN пишет: 
А еще было его обещание запустить отель в 2015. 

Если вспомнить все обещания Бигелоу, то мало не покажется! А вот сомнения укрепятся...

[Salo]

Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  
NAC member Tom Young asks if BEAM module worth the expense. Gerst: a large volume for Mars missions has advantages; BEAM only $10-20M.

[Salo]

Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  
Bigelow: hope to deploy two B330 modules, attached to each other, in orbit by 2020. Combined volume of 660 cubic meters.

[Salo]

http://ria.ru/space/20160409/1405789373.html#ixzz45OpgcFsd

Экипаж МКС "надует" экспериментальный модуль BEAM на МКС 25-26 мая
02:5209.04.2016 (обновлено: 07:04 10.04.2016)148452
Экспериментальный раздвижной модуль в будущем может быть использован для расширения жилого и рабочего пространства космической станции.

ВАШИНГТОН, 9 апр – РИА Новости. Экспериментальный раздвижной модуль ВЕАМ, который прибудет на МКС на грузовом корабле Dragon в воскресенье, примет свои рабочие размеры 25-26 мая, сообщил руководитель программы МКС в НАСА Кирк Ширман.
"Пятнадцатого или 16 апреля он будет пристыкован, затем, ориентировочно 25-26 мая BEAM будет "надут", — рассказал Ширман на пресс-конференции после запуска Dragon. Ранее сообщалось, что это должно произойти в конце мая, но точные сроки не назывались.
BEAM (Bigelow Expandable Activity Module) разработан компанией Bigelow Airspace по контракту с НАСА. Это раздвижной модуль, который в будущем может быть использован для расширения жилого и рабочего пространства для работы людей в космосе.
Модуль прибудет на станцию в сложенном виде, его диаметр в этом состоянии не превышает 2,5 метра. Затем он при помощи манипулятора будет извлечен из грузового корабля и пристыкован к американскому модулю "Спокойствие" (Tranquility). После этого экипаж осуществит его герметизацию, в результате чего с помощью воздуха со станции и воздушных подушек самого модуля он будет расширен до размера около 3,2 метра.
Предполагается, что продолжительность тестового пребывания модуля BEAM на МКС составит два года, в течение которых будут тестировать его стойкость к таким угрозам космического пространства, как радиация, температура, а также его герметичность. На этом этапе экипаж будет лишь периодически посещать новый модуль для взятия образцов и обеспечения благополучного хода эксперимента.

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Интересно о чем сегодня поведуют Bigelow и ULA?

[Salo]

http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/04/11/atlas-5-to-launch-commercial-space-habitat-for-bigelow-aerospace/

Atlas 5 to launch commercial space habitat for Bigelow Aerospace             
 April 11, 2016 Justin Ray       
 An illustration of Bigelow module launching atop Atlas 5. Credit: ULA

The maker of inflatable technology for a commercial space station will use a top-of-the-line Atlas 5 rocket with a stretched nose cone to hoist the first habitat into Earth orbit in 2020.
Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance announced the partnership today at the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
"We could not be more pleased than to partner with Bigelow Aerospace and reserve a launch slot on our manifest for this revolutionary mission," said Tory Bruno, ULA president and CEO.
"This innovative and game-changing advance will dramatically increase opportunities for space research in fields like materials, medicine and biology. And it enables destinations in space for countries, corporations and even individuals far beyond what is available today, effectively democratizing space. We can't begin to imagine the future potential of affordable real estate in space."
The Atlas 5 rocket will fly in the 552 configuration with five side-mounted solid boosters, a twin-engine Centaur upper stage and an 87-foot-long, 18-foot-diameter payload fairing with over 50 feet of usable cargo room, the most capable variant of the vehicle available.
The longer nose cone will give the vehicle a height of 216 feet, 10 feet taller than any previous Atlas thus far.
"You are constrained by the ability of your launch vehicle. In our case, we have to fit within two things — a vehicle that can lift 43,500 pounds and a vehicle that has the fairing length. There is only one at the moment, and for the next foreseeable few years, and that happens to be the Atlas 552 stretch fairing," said company founder and hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow.
"When looking for a vehicle to launch our large, unique spacecraft, ULA provides a heritage of solid mission success, schedule certainty and a cost effective solution," he added.
"SpaceX, they do not have the capability with the fairing size that is necessary to accommodate the 330 (module). So that is not even a choice."
 
An illustration of Bigelow module launching atop Atlas 5. Credit: ULA

Atlas comes off the pad riding two-and-a-half million pounds of thrust from the solids and its kerosene-fueled main engine. The rocket, which will return to dual-engine Centaurs for greater lifting power on low-Earth orbit ascents starting next year, will have an upper stage with two hydrogen-fed powerplants for 46,000 pounds of thrust.
That performance is needed to lift the so-called "B330" module to space for either a free-flying station or docking it to the International Space Station and increase the existing work and living area there.
"We are exploring options for the location of the initial B330 including discussions with NASA on the possibility of attaching it to the International Space Station," said Bigelow, the billionaire owner of the Budget Suites of America hotel chain.
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 "In that configuration, the B330 will enlarge the station's volume by 30 percent and function as a multipurpose testbed in support of NASA's exploration goals as well as provide significant commercial opportunities."
The provisional name of this module is XBASE or Expandable Bigelow Advanced Station Enhancement.
 
File photo of Atlas 5 rocket with five solids. Credit: ULA

But if the International Space Station idea doesn't pan out, Bigelow says "the B330 is essentially a standalone space station in and of itself."
Commercial uses could range from pharmaceutical research and manufacturing to tourism.
"My background is development, construction, general contracting and banking and everything to do with real estate. So I transfer a lot of the business case from that industry and, essentially, the foundation of our business case (for Bigelow Aerospace) is time sharing. Time sharing time and volume and branding — naming rights to all kinds of advertising," said Bigelow.
Expandable modules are large, roomy habitats that are lighter to launch and collapse down to fit within the nose cone volume of existing rockets, offering clear advantages over traditional solid-body compartments.
 
The interior of a B330 expandable space module. Credit: Bigelow Aerospace

The ULA launch deal comes just one day after Bigelow's experimental BEAM module — the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module — arrived at the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX cargo-delivery ship. BEAM will be attached to the station this weekend, then inflated in late May for a two-year test to record internal temperatures, reactions to debris impacts and the radiation levels in the module.
"We want to understand the structural integrity, the radiation performance of (the module) and the temperature controls in order to help inform our choices for deep space habitats," said Jason Crusan, director of NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems Division. "So we're going to do that over these two years."
With the internal volume about the size of a small bedroom, the BEAM module is not equipped with lights or any other crew amenities. The astronauts will keep the experiment compartment closed off and enter only a few times per year to retrieve stored data.
"This type of architecture has never been flown before," Bigelow said.
"We are in the early phase of a new kind of spacecraft that offers a lot of promise."
The B330 that Atlas will launch into low-Earth orbit in 2020 will have 330 cubic meters (12,000 cubic feet) of internal space, offering a 210 percent more habitable volume with an increase of only 33 percent in mass compared to the conventional U.S. Destiny laboratory module of the International Space Station.
Built at the Bigelow Aerospace factory in North Las Vegas, each B330 will support a crew of six, have four observation windows and a 20-year design life.
 
Illustration of B330 module with a Boeing Starliner crew capsule docked. Credit: Bigelow Aerospace

A free-flying Bigelow station could share room between companies and foreign nations wanting to exploit space.
"It's a combination of everything from what you could manufacture product-wise and bring down," Bigelow said.
"We would operate these on behalf of nations that have astronaut corps and others that aspire to have them. Right now, the frequency of the opportunity to fly is not often. Other than for the United States and Russia, it's about once every three years. Some countries, maybe never, or very, very seldom. So there is a substantial appetite out there we've discovered, and so we think that's a market," Bigelow said.
"It could change the image of a country overnight to have that kind of facility. Or it could induce (a company) to locate their plant in their country and offer them that kind of resource in orbit as a very unique laboratory."
A commercial mode of transportation for launching crews to the Bigelow facilities and returning them to Earth has stymied the billionaire's dreams. But with Boeing's Starliner and the SpaceX Dragon capsules both slated for human test-flights next year, Bigelow's wait may soon be over.
"The element of substantial cliental — us starting to collect deposits by virtue of reservations — has always been hostage to the availability of transportation. And we've had to throttle our own progress according to the ability of transportation to be there at a certain point in time," Bigelow said.
The Starliners will be delivered to space atop Atlas 5 rockets in the 422 configuration with two solids and twin-engine upper stages. SpaceX will use its standardized Falcon 9 rocket.
The DreamChaser mini spaceplanes and Blue Origin's orbital vehicle are future options as well, Bigelow said.
NASA is studying using expandable habitats for a crew's living area on far-flung missions into deep space, such as an asteroid or Mars. The BEAM module is a stepping stone to demonstrate the new technology in the actual space environment before moving to the larger designs of B330.
"It is the future," said Kirk Shireman, NASA's manager of the International Space Station program. "Humans will be using these kinds of modules as we move farther and farther off the planet and as we inhabit low-Earth orbit. So I think it really is the next logical step in humans getting off the planet."

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Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  12 ч.12 часов назад  
Bigelow: we call tourists "amateur astronauts."
 
Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  12 ч.12 часов назад
Bruno: flying B330 is creating a fundamentally new mission in space, first in 20-30 years.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  12 ч.12 часов назад  
Bigelow, on ULA partnership: my own philosophy is to maintain partnerships for long periods of time.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  12 ч.12 часов назад  
Why not fly B330s independently at first? Bigelow: does make some logistical sense to be on station.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  12 ч.12 часов назад  
Bruno: we're collaborating with technology and talent. We don't talk about dollars right now.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  12 ч.12 часов назад  
Discussion of STEM. ULA plans to launch student cubesats, Bigelow wants to fly youth to its stations in an "associate astronaut" program.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  12 ч.12 часов назад  
Bigelow: B330 could be berthed with Canadarm or dock. Docking mechanisms on ISS likely would need to be enhanced.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  12 ч.12 часов назад
[Asking Robert Bigelow if he would move away from expandables seems like asking Elon Musk if Tesla would make a gas-powered car.]

  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  12 ч.12 часов назад  
Bigelow: we think we could populate several different destinations beyond ISS with our modules.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  12 ч.12 часов назад
Bigelow: if B330 attached to the station, expect NASA to be primary customer. But there would be timesharing, too.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  12 ч.12 часов назад  
Bruno: the funnest part of this kind of endeavor is that we don't know what jobs this project will enable. But comm'l research likely .
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  13 ч.13 часов назад  
Bigelow: if this B330 goes to ISS, NASA will be "all over" the design of it.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  13 ч.13 часов назад  
Bigelow: we have a lot of concepts for funding the development of this partnership, "premature" to talk specifics.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  13 ч.13 часов назад  
Bigelow: have to go through internal processes at NASA, and partners; a "gauntlet of challenges" before adding B330 to ISS.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  13 ч.13 часов назад  
.@torybruno That B330 is bigger than my first apartment.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  13 ч.13 часов назад
Bigelow reiterates comments from last week that there are customers interested in using BEAM on ISS, perhaps in 6 months' time.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  13 ч.13 часов назад  
Bigelow: this partnership is a "work in process", still in preliminary phases. (So no launch contract yet.)
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  13 ч.13 часов назад  
Bigelow, on leasing and naming rights: we'd love to see Disney have a Disney Space Station.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  13 ч.13 часов назад  
Bigelow and ULA announcing a "partnership" to deploy B330 modules in orbit using the Atlas 5 552.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  13 ч.13 часов назад  
Robert Bigelow, at ULA-Bigelow event: working with NASA on permission to install B330 module on ISS.

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Bigelow Aerospace ‏@BigelowSpace 14 ч.14 часов назад
On Saturday @NASA will air the installation of the BEAM to @Space_Station starting at 5:30 am (EDT) on @NASATVLive
 SpaceX
 
 Bigelow Aerospace ретвитнул(а)
 
  Intl. Space Station ‏@Space_Station 13 апр.
Watch the first expandable habitat get installed to the space station on Saturday. Details: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-attach-test-first-expandable-habitat-on-international-space-station ...

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http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-attach-test-first-expandable-habitat-on-international-space-station

April 12, 2016
 MEDIA ADVISORY M16-039  
 NASA to Attach, Test First Expandable Habitat on International Space Station  

This artist's concept depicts the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module attached to the International Space Station's Tranquility module.
Credits: Bigelow Aerospace
 
The first human-rated expandable structure that may help inform the design of deep space habitats is set to be installed to the International Space Station Saturday, April 16. NASA Television coverage of the installation will begin at 5:30 a.m. EDT.
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will be attached to the station's Tranquility module over a period of about four hours. Controllers in mission control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will remove BEAM from the unpressurized trunk of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, using the robotic Canadarm2, and move it into position next to Tranquility's aft assembly port. NASA astronauts aboard the station will secure BEAM using common berthing mechanism controls. Robotic operations begin at 2:15 a.m. and are expected to be complete by 6:15 a.m.
BEAM launched aboard Dragon on April 8 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. At the end of May, the module will be expanded to nearly five times its compressed size of 7 feet in diameter by 8 feet in length to roughly 10 feet in diameter and 13 feet in length.
Astronauts will first enter the habitat about a week after expansion and, during a two-year test mission, will return to the module for a few hours several times a year to retrieve sensor data and assess conditions.
Expandable habitats are designed to take up less room on a rocket, but provide greater volume for living and working in space once expanded. This first test of an expandable module will allow investigators to gauge how well the habitat performs overall and, specifically, how well it protects against solar radiation, space debris and the temperature extremes of space. Once the test period is over, BEAM will be released from the space station, and will burn up during its descent through Earth's atmosphere.
BEAM is an example of NASA's increased commitment to partnering with industry to enable the growth of the commercial use of space. The BEAM project is co-sponsored by NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems Division and Bigelow Aerospace.
The International Space Station serves as the world's leading laboratory for conducting cutting-edge microgravity research and is the primary platform for technology development and testing in space to enable human and robotic exploration of destinations beyond low-Earth orbit, including asteroids and Mars. 
For coverage times and to watch the BEAM installation live, visit:
 

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For more information about BEAM, visit:
 

http://www.nasa.gov/beam

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:
 

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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Cheryl Warner
 Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1100
cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov
  Dan Huot
 Johnson Space Center, Houston
 281-483-5111
daniel.g.huot@nasa.gov

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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/habitat_tests_technology

April 14, 2016
Expandable Habitat Demonstration Will Test Technologies Needed for Deep Space Exploration

William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and operations, left, and Jason Crusan, director of NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems, take a closer look at the packed Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) at Bigelow Aerospace's Las Vegas facility before it launches on the eighth SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Credits: NASA


The BEAM module will be attached to the rear port of the space station's Node 3. After installation, the BEAM expands to roughly 13-feet-long and 10.5 feet in diameter.
Credits: Bigelow Aerospace, LLC
 

The BEAM module's skin is made up of multiple layers designed to protect it fr om micro-meteoroid and orbital debris.
Credits: Bigelow Aerospace, LLC
 
A lot goes into building a house, from finding the right place to put it, gathering the experts and right materials to build it, and scheduling tasks to complete the project.
A new addition to the International Space Station may simplify the process, not necessarily for homes on Earth, but to create homes millions of miles away, on the journey to deep space destinations, including Mars.
The eighth SpaceX resupply mission, scheduled to launch to the space station April 8, will carry the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) - an experimental module made by Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas, which can dock with the station and then expand to approximately 12 feet long and 10.5 feet in diameter, providing a potential habitable area for crew members to live and work in space.
"The space station provides an ideal laboratory to test the BEAM expandable module in the harsh environment wh ere it will have to operate," said Julie Robinson, NASA's chief scientist for the International Space Station. "BEAM has many desirable features for space habitats. Attaching this expandable module to the space station offers NASA the opportunity to expose it to the radiation, temperatures, pressures and micrometeoroid environment, and measure how it holds up."
Once the SpaceX Dragon capsule is docked to the space station, a crew member will use the station's robotic Canadarm2 to extract BEAM from the capsule's aft trunk compartment and attach it to the rear port on the Tranquility node. After the module is secured to the port, BEAM will be left alone for a few weeks before crew members expand it from its packed dimensions of nearly six feet long and just less than eight feet in diameter to its pressurized dimensions of 12 feet long and 10.5 feet in diameter.
During BEAM's two-year test period, the module will typically be closed off to the rest of the space station. Astronauts will enter the module six to eight times each year to collect deployment load, temperature, pressure and radiation data, and to assess its structural condition. After two years of monitoring, BEAM will be jettisoned from the space station to burn up on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
An important feature of the BEAM module is the size and weight. BEAM weighs approximately 3,000 pounds and has 565 cubic feet of pressurized volume.
"Expandable habitats significantly decrease the amount of transport volume for future space missions," said Rajib Dasgupta, BEAM project manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "These expandables take up less room on a rocket, but once set up, provide greater volume for living and working. After thorough testing, we believe crews traveling to the moon, Mars, asteroids or other destinations could use them as habitable structures or as labs or work areas."
When building a shelter like a house, the right materials are essential to keep the occupants safe. In space, this means a durable material providing protection from space debris, the temperature fluctuations, and solar and cosmic radiation.
The BEAM module's skin is made up of multiple layers of soft goods. The different layers consist of an air barrier or bladder, structural restraint, micro-meteoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) layers, and external multi-layer thermal insulation layers. BEAM has no windows.
The robust MMOD shield is designed and tested for the low-Earth orbit environment, and is designed to stop MMOD particles from breaching the primary structural restraint layer and the air bladder. In the unlikely event of a puncture, BEAM would slowly leak instead of bursting. It is designed in this manner to preclude any damage to the rest of the space station.
The BEAM is an example of NASA's increased commitment to partnering with industry to stimulate the growth of commercial industry in space. The BEAM project is a public-private partnership between Bigelow Aerospace, Sierra Nevada Corporation, NASA's International Space Station program and Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Division, which pioneers innovative approaches to rapidly and affordably develop prototype systems for future human exploration missions.
It may be a few more years before expandable habitats see regular use in orbit, but the BEAM will help NASA better understand the potential for expandable habitats for future space exploration.

 
Animation of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module's extraction and installation on the International Space Station.
Credits: NASA
 
Bill Hubscher
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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Дмитрий Виницкий пишет:
Так вопрос о том, что будет, если он сдуется внештатно? Производитель, как бЭ, не внушает...

А с чего ему при разгерметизации вообще сдуваться? Давления снаружи нет, однако.

SFN пишет:
После испытаний Трансхаба в термовакуумной камере это не демонстрация, а насмешка

В камере его обстреливали микрометоритами и облучали высокоэнергичным излучением?

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Bigelow Aerospace ‏@BigelowSpace  
BEAM expands on @Space_Station in ~1 month, marking the beginning of using human-rated expandable habitats in space.
 
  12:28 - 29 апр. 2016 г.  

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Bigelow Aerospace ‏@BigelowSpace  3 мая  
It would take over 140 BEAMs to fill the volume of one Olympus. Image credit: Dan Winters
 

  Koblos Attila ‏@Gilgamesh11111  4 мая  
@BigelowSpace But only seven BA330s...
 
  Koblos Attila ‏@Gilgamesh11111  4 мая  
@BigelowSpace Which would cost about 300 million dollars to launch, using Falcon Heavy Expendables. Falcon Heavy Resuables would cost less..
 
  Rob West ‏@newpylong  
@Gilgamesh11111 @BigelowSpace Falcon Heavy not enough lift capacity. Would require SLS Block IB w/8m fairing.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BA_2100

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Начало развёртывания 12:45-13:10 ДМВ 26 мая.

[Max Andriyahov]

Интересно, видео снимут? Три дня осталось...

[knezevolk]

Надувают же онлайн прямо сейчас
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public