Re: Spare arrays?

So far, the arrays were delivered as a package that consisted primarily of a portion of the struss with all the hardware/motors and structures to deploy the blankets.

What if they were to send only the actual blanket ? Would that make it light enough to be fitted in one of the remaining shuttle flights ? Or would that still be way too heavy ?


When folded, isn't the array blanket small enough that its volume would not be an issue on one of the remaining shuttle flights ?
.

Relevant Pages

  • Computer glitches impact station attitude control
    ... A Russian navigation computer aboard the international space station hung ... The arrays were successfully deployed, ... resulted in a less-than-desirable attitude and a loss of solar power ... holding open the options of attempting the blanket repair during the third ...
    (sci.space.station)
  • Re: impl a collection
    ... >to 1.5 gig ram, you will understand. ... I hear you and I don't understand why you should blanket "not use ... arrays" as the OP commanded. ... Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. ...
    (comp.lang.java.programmer)