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Fictional space DSEV Kronos 1
Deep Space Exploration Vehicle “Kronos 1″ in low earth orbit, right after leaving the orbital construction dock.
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Looks great! This reminds me of the Elite Dangerous generation ships.
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Can't remember now, but I guess it was around 460m long.
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Mccoy: My god, that's a big ship...
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It appears that Kronos 1 utilizes the VASMIR plasma drive designed by Franklin R. Chang Díaz of Ad Astra Rocket Company of Houston, Texas
Check out their Website and their videos on Youtube...Interesting how brilliant minds think alike. I'm really Impressed by your designs and art !
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Wouldn't the coriolis effect cause problems in the artificial gravity module?
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Probably, but not that much if you use this module mostly for sleeping in a horizontal orientation
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Oh Yes I see. It's more for resting.
something like this would be very important for long interplanetary missions and I guess any artificial gravity is better than bone density loss.
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My Lord, this looks amazing. Please, is a HD wallpaper available?
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From the fairly extensive array of radiators and the disc just before the fuel tanks probably being a radiation shield, as well as the lack of any apparent solar panels for power, I would say a nuclear thermal rocket.
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so they get power from the nuclear reactor on its own?
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I don't know, but a ship like this would almost certainly be nuclear powered. The reactor producing heat for the engine won't necessarily (in fact it's quite unlikely to) be the reactor actually producing power.
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since we're talking about nuclear
is it possible for nuclear FUSION engines? (i know humanity is gonna test one in 2018-2020) 
and would a power source on a spaceship be clean?
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Power generation from a fusion rocket? Probably, though not on the order of getting genuine fusion powerplant levels. A coolant loop, which may be very much necessary to have anyway, could pass through a generator before the ship's radiators, giving you power.
Solar & beamed power and fuel cells are all dandy, but nuclear power won't be clean at all, no. The radiation produced may be in the instant kill range of lethality in some cases. Shielding for the ship owning the powerplant is actually quite lightweight, but operating near other inhabited objects or servicing unshielded components may be problematic. There are NASA diagrams somewhere for refuelling procedures that involve approaching from a great distance while staying inside the shadow provided by the radiation shielding. There is a kind of fusion that is aneutronic, however. Boron-proton fusion is like this, but it requires extreme energies to initiate the reaction. In terms of conventional pollution you've got a whole lot of nuclear waste to get rid of. Thankfully however, in the case of certain nuclear rocket designs, most of that is dealt with already — by throwing it out the back along with the propellant.
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doesnt fusion (as opposed to fission) create no waste? (hence it being called clean, and VERY reusable)
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Sorry, yes, I believe I was only talking about fission there. Fusion is relatively clean — some fuels and most reactions produce ionising radiation, but there are no hazardous long-lived waste products from the fusion processes generally discussed.
There are products though, for instance deuterium-tritium fusion produces helium, which could be put straight to use in industry or whatever, or even more fusion reactions. Fusion is reuseable in the sense that you can continue fusing elements all the way up to the heaviest element possible, but this starts consuming rather than releasing energy once you go beyond manganese or iron.
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Isnt that centrifugal section too short to have artificial gravity without the stronauts also getting nauseous? xD
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It may be a bit too small for standing up work, but the crew isn't supposed to work in the centrifuge section - it's mostly sleeping quarters (wouldn't get nauseous while laying down) and for exercise. The outer radius is 25m and with 4-5 RPM it should be sufficient for the crew needs.
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And a centrifuge doesn't have to spin fast enough to generate 1 G to be useful. Even a very small amount of simulated gravity would make ordinary living and working much easier.
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exactly, 5 RPM with 25m radious gives 0,7g which is enough for their needs.
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It looks a bit like the Kadeshi motherships from Homeworld.
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Yeah, almost on it's way to Saturn, with a couple of stops on the way.
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I like that "a couple of stops on the way."
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Magnificent... may there one day be a real future for space exploration, and not just budget dictated short-cutting and empty white elephant promises.
I like this design, it's very clean/feasible and clearly every exterior component can be safely worked on in spacewalk.
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Thanks! And yeah, fully funded space exploration is something to dream about 
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