Orbital maintenance docking. Illustration of a reusable crew capsule (RCC,upper left) docking with an orbital maintenance platform (OMP,lower right) in low Earth orbit. The spacecraft are passing over Denmark and southern Sweden. The RCC can support a crew of up to seven astronauts and is capable of returning independently to Earth. The OMP,designed in the style of an International Space Station (ISS) module,includes a robotic arm. The RCC is 8 metres long with solar voltaic panels (blue) spanning 15 metres. The OMP is 13.7 metres long. When docked,the combined configuration is around 21 metres in length with a diameter of 5.5 metres | |
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