[extropy-chat] SPACE: Deep Impact shows strong spectral lines...

[giorgio gaviraghi]

unfortunately Bigelow's design has a major flaw
by laying the floors parallel to the cylinder it will
not allow artificial gravity and is not optimizing the
interior space
to do that the best solution is to lay the floors
perpendiculat to the cylinder, connect the modules
with a ring structure that will allow future expansion
and additional modules and rotate around a central
hub, connected with spikes to the circular ring
For future utilization anext generation space station
or space hotel must bre provided with some sort of
artificial gravity to avoid most negative effects of
zero G situation
--- Neil Halelamien <neuronexmachina at gmail.com> ha
scritto: 

> On 7/6/05, Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > But you are right, however Bigelow Aerospace has
> some excellent space
> > habitat modules
> http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/news.html and the
> > design for its "Nautilus Moon Cruiser" seems just
> the ticket. Bigelows
> > first hab module will be launching on SpaceX's
> Falcon 5 booster in
> > November. 
> 
> I think it used to be scheduled for November, but
> after some bumping
> of schedules (partially due to launch range
> conflicts between SpaceX's
> Falcon I and the Air Force's Titan IV), the first
> launch of the Falcon
> V (carrying Bigelow's prototype hab module) is the
> second quarter of
> 2006:
> 
>
http://www.spacex.com/index.html?section=falcon&content=http%3A//www.spacex.com/falcon_overview.php
>
http://www.spacex.com/index.html?section=updates&content=http%3A//www.spacex.com/updates.php
> 
> I'm actually a little skeptical of even this launch
> date, as the first
> launch of the Falcon I is late September. ~6 months
> seems like an
> awfully short time to go from a rocket with one
> first-stage engine to
> a rocket with five such engines. I would love to be
> pleasantly
> surprised, though.
> 
> > Their $50 million "Americas Space Prize" deadline
> is 2010,
> > which I'm betting Rutan will have won by 2007 or
> 2008.
> 
> I'm not so sure about that -- Rutan seems plenty
> busy with other
> projects at the moment. I'd pin my money on SpaceX
> (which has already
> announced their intention to compete for the ASP),
> or -maybe- a team
> with SpaceX building the rocket and Rutan building a
> reentry vehicle
> as payload.
> 
> > If it turns out that a 2011 rendezvous cannot
> occur, it appears that
> > Tempel orbits in a 1:2 resonance with Jupiter,
> which has an 11.86 year
> > orbit. With Mars having a nearly 2 year orbit, it
> appears that using
> > Tempel as a bus for an orbital transfer can happen
> about every 12
> > years. That amount of time should allow for plenty
> of private space
> > development. Once Bigelow's orbital hotels are in
> operation in 2010, a
> > moon base is apparently their next step a few
> years later, which is all
> > the infrastructure needed to launch missions to
> Mars and Jupiter in
> > 2023.
> 
> Exciting times. In case anyone hasn't seen the
> recent PopSci articles
> on Bigelow's projects, here are some links:
> 
> "The Five-Billion-Star Hotel"
>
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,20967,1027551,00.html
> 
> "Low-Earth Orbit, and Beyond: Preview Bigelow's moon
> cruiser and
> corporate space yacht"
>
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,20967,1027555,00.html
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