Timeline for Ugh, I'm stuck in an orbital spaceport. But why?
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| Dec 19, 2016 at 1:25 | history | edited | kingledion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2016 at 14:06 | comment | added | kingledion | @JDługosz I don't think it would be, but since the OP's question asks for reasons to delay leaving an orbital space station, a CME seems like a good deal. As mentioned in an above comment, you are MUCH safer inside a magnetosphere than outside, so I suspect anyone who could, would get into the magnetosphere if that happened. | |
| Dec 16, 2016 at 10:09 | comment | added | JDługosz | The CME bothers me because ships are in transit for months. Why would it be an issue for launching only? | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 14:54 | comment | added | user | Keep in mind that "a few hours" might be only slightly more than the speed-of-light communications delay for the message getting from the source to the destination, depending on the exact orbital arrangement at the time. Mars is never closer to Earth than a few minutes away by light, and a straight line at opposition would be something like half an hour. Throw in a hop across a satellite because the Sun is really noisy in both visible light and RF which makes communicating across it very difficult, and you can easily approach 40-50 minutes message propagation delay when all goes perfectly. | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 23:06 | comment | added | Maxander | How about a CRE that isn't intense or well-aimed enough to actually be threatening, but just powerful enough to increase the failure rate of electronics (and cancer rates of crew) by a fraction of a percent, and the Space Bureaucrats say that that's considered Unsafe and ground all flights. That sounds like a plausible day-to-day occurrence, for sure. | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 22:10 | comment | added | Zxyrra | I was gonna say CRE. Nice answer, +1 | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 21:16 | comment | added | kingledion | @Miech LEO is well within the magnetosphere. You would be suicidal to leave the magnetosphere when a CME had been reported; with the thrust levels that I understand to be possible in the OP's scenario, I don't see any way of outrunning the mass of charged particles (average speed ~500 km/s), much less the x-rays and near-light speed cosmic rays. Even in the magnetosphere, the interaction of charged particles with the magnetic field will cause all sorts of unwelcome events. | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 20:35 | comment | added | M i ech | Do you perchance know if LEO objects are partially shielded by magnetosphere from CME radiation and are instead under risk of being fried by EMP blast caused by resultant Geomagnetic Storm? That would be a great reason to stay on station that is both EMP-hardened and radiation shielded (by both lead and magnetosphere) instead of boarding the ship which, to save weight, will have none. | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 16:08 | history | edited | kingledion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2016 at 16:02 | history | answered | kingledion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |