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Reactor-Axe-Man — Waystation Mk.III WIP
Published: 2011-03-20 08:21:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 2207; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 90
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My third attempt to build my Waystation class space station. I am much happier with how this one is turning out, but then again, I haven't built the arboretum sections for it yet... I have included my Tautog class corvette and a pair of L9 Tenders for an idea of scale. The ring is about 600 meters in radius and 100 meters wide. So far all I have of the station is the ring section - the hangar, cargo, fuel storage, power plant, sensors and all of that has yet to be added to the hub.Modeled with SketchUp. Rendered with Kerkythea.
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Really nice design, looking forward to when its finished
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Ring vs cylinder...? That's a hard question when trying to find the best possible space habitat design. A ring-shaped habitat could have utility functions at the center, but a cylinder would have more living space with relatively little additional mass.
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You got your way in my station!
You got your station in my way!
*fights*
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*ducks and runs for the exits*
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I'd hazard a guess that its meant to be kept at around luna gravity is that correct? Thats a pretty sweet modelling you have there, but as you say the big issue with any station of this type is getting the farming and oxygen production to look just as good. It will be very interesting to see if you pull it off.
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It is meant to be kept to about 0.8 to 1.0 G of perceived gravity. At around 1 RPM this is imminently adaptable to even the least experienced "groundhogs" who might find themselves in orbit.
I find that my biggest weakness with the Arboretum is going to be the trees. You can get nice looking trees in SketchUp, but the poly counts skyrocket. Kerkythea has an instancing function that could simulate good trees for low resource costs, but I am very much a neophyte in that area. I may have to get tricksy here to get it to work. We probably won't see much farmland like a dedicated O'Neill cylinder as the internal area really isn't all that large - 100 meters wide and 3800 meters in circumference, of which maybe 3200 meters is available, so 320,000 square meters or 32 hectares or about 79 acres of total arboretum surface area, so vegetable gardens and orchards maybe, but not a lot of wheat, so below-decks hydroponics will also be around, and the station will still need to be resupplied from outside sources. The arboretum is more for morale than a total life support system.
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Have dyson trees not crossed your mind? trees genetically engineered to live in a zero gravity environment. All they need is a little ice and UV which can be provided for artificially. Not a very efficient oxygen source for a large population but perhaps survival for a skeleton crew. I'd recommend a book that I read back in the 70s called High Colonies if I could only remember the authors, it discussed several types of toroidal space station from the mini bonstell type to the vast stanford torii. Many agronomy solutions were discussed in the book.
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So, with a 600 mtr radius, what's the rotational speed for near .9 G ?
*Wanders of to try and find the spin calculator equations kept some where on their computer*
Much cheers to you and yours.
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600m @ 0.9G = 1.16 RPM; tangential velocity of 72.8 m/sec.
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*Nods* Not too fast seeming.
Yah...finding anything amongst my HD's is a pain...>_>
Much cheers to you and yours.
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That is quite a lot. You can probably get away with .3 G though, at least if you refashion it into a military facility.
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Whoops, borked my calc - I used diameter of the Earth instead of radius!
Tangential velocity of 465.12 m/sec at 0.000694 RPM. Centripetal acceleration of 0.0034 G.
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