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Yeah, docking is impossible on attached objects in Orbiter's current programming. What I meant previously was that simply set all berthing/docking ports as DOCKS, while only the grapple points the ones set as ATTACHMENTS. Like this one: Theoretically in this setup, both parts will automatically...

I guess the easiest route is that let the arm grapple the attachment point on the PMA, then position it in a way that when it is released, it will automatically dock to a target port

The solar arrays from the render look like a lot similar to that of the iROSAs of the ISS and those from DART. Maybe @BrianJ's code for the DART addon would be a great help for this There's also the ROSA array found in @Donamy's SpaceX CRS-11 payloads addon that is coded in Spacecraft3.DLL as...

Yeah the PPTM has two common berthing mechanisms on both ends, with one being occupied by a PMA. Based on current renders, this one seems to be permanently attached unlike the second PMA of Hab-1. Hypothetically it could be detached anytime they'd like though, just not on the current plans atm

Would be nice if the RMS can move the PMA to one of the side ports as Hab-2 arrives....then relocates it towards the latter module's other end. So yeah, either an attached object or a docked vessel will do

You could just simply downloaded it on the Artemis landers thread

Never knew that New Glenn is still a lot larger than I thought. I expected the MK1 Blue Moon would be a lot larger

Oohh the unmanned Pathfinder (MK1) version. Nice

Afaik the new plans were to send a new SSRMS alongside AxHab-1. I may be wrong but they don't plan on reusing the Canadarm2 anymore

Looks like it's going to get a similar scenario from when the crew of Soyuz T-14 had to depart Salyut 7 early due to their commander, Vladimir Vasyutin, got terribly sick

First scenario would be the AxPPTM berthed to the ISS Second scenario would be the AxHab-1 docked to AxPPTM after the latter departed the ISS

The design of Axiom's solar arrays looked like they are ROSAs. Similar to the iROSAs that are currently attached over the main panels of the ISS and those from DART

I guess we don't see any sign yet that Axiom would make a launch contract with another aerospace company than SpaceX soon. I'm wondering if the long-fairing option would be used for a regular Falcon 9 though (or would it be somehow aerodynamically unstable if it did?) Still, Vulcan Centaur...

Looks like Axiom would likely launch their longer modules on other rockets (Vulcan Centaur perhaps?) assuming that the planned longer fairings of Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy weren't manufactured yet, and only reserved for the core of the Lunar Gateway. As for AxPPTM, it's more likely that the launch...

By the time AxHab-1 launches, the AxPPTM will be separated from the ISS, carrying along with it the racks from the old station that NASA (and probably ESA and JAXA) would like to save before the ISS is deorbited On Axiom's rough timeline, should be happening about 9 months after AxPPTM launches

In this version of the ISS, Axiom will still be berthed here, on the nadir port of Harmony. On the renders of Axiom in YouTube, the radiator and solar array will remain stowed until it is detached from the ISS Side note: Ever since I've played Orbiter in 2015, I'm not sure why does that...

The second docking adapter from AxHab-1 seems to be detachable, likely to be temporarily relocated to one of its side ports before it'll be moved on its final position on AxHab-2's aft port once it arrives

The docking port on the left is a CBM-type port. It will be incompatible to an APAS-type mechanism since it was meant to receive the racks that NASA and ESA plans to save before the ISS is sent to the bottom of the Pacific by 2030 Should be similar to those of the early Dragon or MPLM berthing...

This is the latest video from Axiom about their upcoming space station. It no longer berths from the front port of Harmony (occupied by PMA-2) but on the vacant nadir port usually reserved for cargo spacecraft like the HTV-X

Wasn't that their old render from 2019, long before the HLS contracts was even announced?