Question Why isn't the PMA straight?
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Some photos of this feat being demonstrated would be nice.
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While its a nice image, it doesn't really demonstrate the effectivness of the kink in the PMA. The payload here, Clearly an MPLM, is in the aft portion of the PLB. and because of the short length of the payload itself, the arm gets nowhere near the PMA.
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Looking around I am not sure there is a single picture that demonstrates the benefit of how the PMA's shape position the PLB.
The biggest ISS payload carried up by the Shuttle was Kibo, here on STS-124. I quick look did not pull up picks of the grappling, but I at least found one of the rendezvous, so you can see its position in the bay, and just imagine how having the bay's position altered by the shape of the PMA benefits the astronauts in charge of the robotic ops.
And even with the MPLM. Fly a Shuttle mission to the ISS in Orbiter and see how tricky it was to get the MPLM out of the bay and attached to Harmony using the SSRMS.
The biggest ISS payload carried up by the Shuttle was Kibo, here on STS-124. I quick look did not pull up picks of the grappling, but I at least found one of the rendezvous, so you can see its position in the bay, and just imagine how having the bay's position altered by the shape of the PMA benefits the astronauts in charge of the robotic ops.
And even with the MPLM. Fly a Shuttle mission to the ISS in Orbiter and see how tricky it was to get the MPLM out of the bay and attached to Harmony using the SSRMS.
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This image with a truss segment shows a more "Full" PLB, more so than the KIBO module.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Shuttle_delivers_ISS_P1_truss.jpg
However this image shows the adjustment the PMA makes for the node. You can see how the offset makes the PLB more accessable.
http://d2lupdnmi5p5au.cloudfront.ne...deee_par368524434f7dae6266158a00606ccf12.jpeg
Cras I think youre right, I have not been able to find a good picture of a payload being off loaded that shows the angle needed to demonstrate this effect.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Shuttle_delivers_ISS_P1_truss.jpg
However this image shows the adjustment the PMA makes for the node. You can see how the offset makes the PLB more accessable.
http://d2lupdnmi5p5au.cloudfront.ne...deee_par368524434f7dae6266158a00606ccf12.jpeg
Cras I think youre right, I have not been able to find a good picture of a payload being off loaded that shows the angle needed to demonstrate this effect.
