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Friday, 16 December 2011

Radial-arm space station

Unfoldable, rotating goodness from 1962

2 comments:

  1. I'd like to see something like this made from TransHab modules. You'd probably get more volume and it would likely cost less. Hook up an ion drive and you've got yourself a decent inter-planetary ship.

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  2. Good to see the LORL again; it's just a shame that particular design required a launcher in the Saturn V class to build.

    Still, if SpaceX can get the Falcon Heavy lift to work, we might get a more compact version by the middle of the century...

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