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Bwahaha ... Williams looks completely nonplussed ... bored, even. "Come on, you weenies. I understand caution, but this is completely ridiculous" is his expression. :rofl: Give 'er six inches of inflation and hold, sheesh. NASA ... ugh. Painfully, maddeningly slow bunch.

Hopefully, better luck tomorrow. There was a slight expansion outwards and radially, but not enough till pressure curve exceeded.

From what I have read, bladders between the "folds" are being inflated for initial expansion. She has been folded and stored for over a year, may just need a tap.

One would think that there is also a direct porting for air into the main chamber as well. But like Doc had mentioned, it could expand violently and cause issues with the ISS seal.

 

/s    As long as it expands into a hab and not this...

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:)

 

just in...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Just now, flyingskippy said:

I wasn't able to watch the coverage of BEAM.  Is the problem that it didn't expand enough for the amount of air released or that they released all the air and it didn't expand fully? 

Long story short is it didn't do much of anything. Didn't budge anywhere near what they were expecting it to do. Pressures were higher than expected and amount of expansion was much less than expected also. 

They were being over cautious, only applying about .45 psi of pressure because the Genesis 1 & 2 subscale orbital  testbeds expanded in less than 0.25 second. Too big a risk of damage if a larger structure popped that fast. 

 

The last I heard, they were talking about depressurizibg it and possibly trying to loosen the straps.

 

As for why: this thing has been in packed mode for over a year, delayed by the CRS-7 failure and other things. It's possible some stiction has developed between the straps and structure.

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