Genesis-2

[ronatu]

Genesis II.[/size]

.... We have been able to use and improve upon many of the materials and systems found on Genesis I and incorporate them into the construction of Genesis II, resulting in a similar, yet improved vehicle.

With upgrades to vehicle control and sensory equipment, we are able to improve our interaction with the public. These new upgrades contribute to our ultimate goal: the evolution of product development for a pathway to manned missions.

Since the launch of Genesis I, we have tripled our high-data-rate communication coverage for our vehicles by expanding beyond our original Las Vegas and Virginia sites and constructing ground station sites in Alaska and Hawaii.

The launch of Genesis II requires Bigelow Aerospace to coordinate multi-vehicle simultaneous operations. With the increase in ground stations and orbiting vehicles, we will be able to communicate with Genesis I and II up to five hours per day. We hope this will enhance our monitoring of Genesis II during the critical initial acquisition phase.

The vision system aboard Genesis II is one example of how we hope to be able to utilize our enhanced communication capabilities. The vision system contains marked improvement in design over the system in Genesis I.

... to enhance the images from each of the 22 cameras onboard Genesis II.

Technology demonstrators include a refined networking architecture over the Genesis I design, dual FireWire and Ethernet camera interfaces, and multiple new camera types including articulated cameras and a wireless camera for additional exterior shots. The cameras have allowed us to make our upcoming flight more personal and insightful for the public.
 
....to view payloads on and in Genesis II. We have expanded upon Genesis I payloads in complexity and number. This includes the "Fly Your Stuff" program, which will allow customers to see their own objects floating around in microgravity. A new exterior image projection system will allow for existing customers, as well as new ones, to display any picture of their choice on the main body of the vehicle. ...

... the Genesis II sensor suite has been improved with additional pressure, temperature, attitude control and radiation detection sensors.
This will allow Bigelow Aerospace to better characterize the low Earth orbit (LEO) environment and the impact it has on spacecraft components, both interior and exterior. These new improvements also affect our revamped habitat for small-scale biological organisms and bugs. The new habitat includes new air and water-handling control systems, environmental sensors and robotic manipulators as preparation for the accommodation of larger life systems.

Genesis II is equipped with a distributed, multi-tank inflation system. This is an improvement on the single-tank design of Genesis I.

By using multiple tanks, the reliability of the inflation process is increased and allows for discrete gas control. This is the next evolutionary step toward maintaining the multiple gas supplies needed for our future man-tended vehicles.

Genesis II contains the same core attitude (guidance) control and stabilization system used on Genesis I with improvements that give us more refined pointing control and a faster dampening of the initial tip-off rate or body rotation from rocket separation. The basic magnetic torque rods, magnetometer, GPS and sun sensors from Genesis I are augmented on Genesis II with new reaction-wheel assemblies and a precision measurement system. The reaction-wheel system allows for the significantly faster body rate settling time and provides a technology demonstration capability needed for the larger future vehicles planned for BA.

Finally, we have installed additional layers to the outer shield of Genesis II to add more safeguards to the vehicle and subsystems. These additional layers offer better protection against micrometeoroid collision damage and improved thermal management, and will help characterize shielding requirements necessary for future missions.....

[ronatu]

.....The next major milestone will come in 2010, with the launch of the Sundancer module. Sundancer will not be quite as large as Bigelow's planned full-scale modules, with an interior volume of 175 cubic meters, but it will be able to accommodate three people. There will be a "trial period of a number of months" to test the module's various subsystems, Bigelow said, before any crews were sent to the module.

After a docking node and propulsion bus is added to Sundancer in 2011, the first full-scale module will be launched in 2012 and attached to the docking node alongside Sundancer. The full-scale "standard" module, designated the BA 330, will be designed to host six people, although to maintain additional margin the capacity might be limited to five people. A second standard module would be launched in 2013, completing the first overall complex.
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http://thespacereview.com/article/852/1

[ronatu]

The launch was scheduled - following a previous sixty day delay - for May 23. The new launch date is now set to be in late June.

The launch was scheduled - following a previous sixty day delay - for May 23. The new launch date is now set to be in late June[/size].

[ronatu]

Mission Control:

[Oleg]

Ага. Особеннно верхняя правая средняя левая и все нижнии картинки - Mission Control :roll:

[pkl]

Да уж - миссион контрол у них просто атас!!!

[slipstream]

Первое сообщение темы (рваная цитата без ссылки) это прессрелиз "Genesis II Different From Genesis I" от 3 мая 2007 -
http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/out_there/genesis_II_difference.php

А про mission control у них есть фотка с разрешением побольше (3456x2304),

http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/out_there/mission_control_blog.php
http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/out_there/images/mc_rw.jpg (2.5Mb)

там видно, что верхняя правая это обои в Windows XP, как видимо и все остальное, кроме текста, графиков.. и Skype =)

[Димитър]

http://www.ln.mid.ru/ns-dvbr.nsf/a84cf38ed768735943256ccc003bcff1/9f7ab87baf2ed0bac32572ea00497283?OpenDocument

Запуск генезиса-2 - 28 июня 2007 года

[Кенгуру]

Так, что там нового то по сравнению с первым ? Кроме большего числа видеокамер.

Стыковать их случайно, не планируют?

[бобры]

Действительно хотят в конце июня пускать  :shock: Видимо, Бигелоу уже изрядно надоело писать на своем сайте фигню про всякие vehicle upgrades и additional testing

[ronatu]

Действительно хотят в конце июня пускать  :shock: Видимо, Бигелоу уже изрядно надоело писать на своем сайте фигню про всякие vehicle upgrades и additional testing

Так задержка же не из-за Bigelow

[бобры]

Так задержка же не из-за Bigelow

Я так подозреваю, что именно он настаивает на пуске 28-го июня, потому что наши вообще планировали его на июль.

[Димитър]

28 июня – Genesis 2 – РН Днепр – Домбаровский (позиционный район)

4 дня остались. Какие-то новости? Кто знает, что там происходит?

[Димитър]

Старт - 19:02:20 МЛВ

[RadioactiveRainbow]

Завтра?
Эх, посмотреть бы видео старта...

[pk13]

Завтра?
Эх, посмотреть бы видео старта...

Забавно, в соответствии с информацией отсюда http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=7950&start=46&posts=53
Бигелоу занял такую официальную позицию - вобще никакой информации по этому запуску не будет, и только в случае успеха поступит прямой релиз от ВА. А мы еще наших ругаем за скрытность, не, и Спейсикс и ВА уже показали, что открытость NASA в этих вопросах это скорее приятное исключение  

[Димитър]

Очень боятся не сглазить !  

[yuri_doma]

Так может Домбаровский и дал запрет, на основании которого появилась эта оф. позиция

[Agent]

Должен был уже улететь. Кто нибудь хоть чтото знает?

[Ярослав]

Здесь http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=7950&start=61&posts=70 пишут
"SPACECRAFT SEPERATION!"