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In 1959, a NASA committee opined that such a space station was the next logical step after the Mercury program. [5] The Stanford torus, proposed by NASA in 1975, is an enormous version of the same concept that could harbor an entire city. [6] NASA has not attempted to build a rotating wheel space station, for several reasons.
Nautilus-X (Non-Atmospheric Universal Transport Intended for Lengthy United States Exploration) is a rotating wheel space station concept developed by engineers Mark Holderman and Edward Henderson of the Technology Applications Assessment Team of NASA.
Bottom center is the non-rotating primary solar mirror, which reflects sunlight onto the angled ring of secondary mirrors around the hub. Painting by Donald E. Davis. Interior of a Stanford torus, painted by Donald E. Davis Collage of figures and tables of Stanford Torus space habitat, from Space Settlements: A Design Study book. Charles ...
A Bishop Ring [1] is a type of hypothetical rotating wheel space station originally proposed in 1997 by Forrest Bishop of the Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering. [2] The concept is a smaller scale version of the Banks Orbital, which itself is a smaller version of the Niven ring. [3]
Artist's depiction of a pair of O'Neill cylinders Interior view, showing alternating land and window segments. An O'Neill cylinder (also called an O'Neill colony, or Island Three) is a space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his 1976 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. [1]
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The cost of the space station has been estimated to be in the "tens of billions". [5] Voyager Station would have partial artificial gravity from its rotation to maintain lunar gravity—approximately 1 ⁄ 6 of Earth's gravity. [3] Above Space has also announced a smaller Pioneer Station [6] that can house only 28 people but could be ...
A small reaction wheel viewed in profile A momentum/reaction wheel comprising part of a high-accuracy Conical Earth Sensor to maintain a satellite's precise attitude. A reaction wheel (RW) is an electric motor attached to a flywheel, which, when its rotation speed is changed, causes a counter-rotation proportionately through conservation of angular momentum. [1]