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Originally Posted by id10t
Think a company like Space X could do it, but I also think they've figured out a Better Way.
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Your posting reminded me of another NASA Project I worked on in your neck of the woods.
We had to measure overhead gantry tracks (looked like rail road tracks) at Camp Blanding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Blanding
Little known fact, during the Shuttle years, spare solid rocket boosters were stored in Camp Blanding underground in case something happened in Kennedy and replacements were needed in a hurry.
The overhead Gantry was binding up under load causing headaches. I remember answering the phone call from NASA asking if we could survey the tracks to millimeter accuracy so they could shim them. An engineer decided that the tracks were out of level causing the binding.
I said, "Sure!! we can do that, let us work up a quote for you." I hung up the phone, turned to my boss and said, "How the hell are we going to measure to that accuracy?"
He told me to get on it and figure out a way. Several phone calls to suppliers later I found Surveying Equipment used to set up high accuracy machine shops accurate to a millimeter.
Works up an outrageous quote embedding rental costs into it. Got the job and helped them fix the gantry.