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    Spacey Video

    Cool video of the Japanese Kounotori cargo ship arriving at the ISS this morning:

    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Very cool.
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    If this is just a cargo vessel (ship goods up to the ISS, collect waste from the ISS and burn up in reentry) why all the solar panels which suggests to me a more long term operation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KK4AMI View Post
    If this is just a cargo vessel (ship goods up to the ISS, collect waste from the ISS and burn up in reentry) why all the solar panels which suggests to me a more long term operation.
    I don't know if those things that look like solar panels really are solar panels. They may be radiators for losing heat gain from the sun.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Oh, OK. I'll look at some other pictures. I figured why waste money on solar panels for short time use when a couple of ol' car batteries would cut it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KK4AMI View Post
    Oh, OK. I'll look at some other pictures. I figured why waste money on solar panels for short time use when a couple of ol' car batteries would cut it.
    Yeah, it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense. They do look a lot like solar panels but near the end of the video you can get a short look where it appears they may be fins of some sort. To quote La Rata, though, I could be full of shit.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Hard to say what the panels are but they are certainly outside the swathes of Kapton material wrapped around the craft.

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    It almost looks like a brown R2D2
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    Kapton? I thought the Japanese used a seaweed wrap
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