The Stanford torus is the proposed NASA design for space habitats that can hold 10,000 to 140,000 permanent residents.
Torus Stanford was proposed during the 1975 Summer Study of NASA, conducted at Stanford University, with the aim of exploring and speculating on the design for future space colonies (Gerard O'Neill then proposed the Island One or Bernal sphere as an alternative to torus). "Stanford torus" only refers to a special version of this design, because the concept of space station in the form of a ring previously proposed by Wernher von Braun and Herman Poto? Nik.
It consists of a torus, or a donut-shaped ring, which is 1.8 km in diameter (for the proposed 10,000 habitats described in the Summer Study of 1975) and rotates once per minute to provide between 0.9 g and 1.0 g of artificial gravity on the inside of the outer ring through centrifugal force.
Sunlight is provided for interior torus by a mirror system. The rings connect to the hub through a number of "spokes", which serve as channels for people and materials traveling to and from the hub. Since the hub is on the station's rotation axis, it undergoes the smallest artificial gravity and is the easiest location for the spacecraft to dock. The zero-gravity industry is performed in a non-rotating module attached to the hub shaft.
The interior space torus itself is used as a living space, and large enough that a "natural" environment can be simulated; The torus looks similar to a long, narrow, straight, glacial valley whose edges curve upwards and eventually meet above the head to form a complete circle. Population density is similar to dense suburbs, with parts of rings dedicated to agriculture and partly for housing.
Video Stanford torus
Construction
Torus requires nearly 10 million tons of mass. Construction will use materials extracted from the Moon and sent into space using bulk drivers. Mass catchers in L2 will collect materials, transport them to L5 where they can be processed at an industrial facility to build torus. Only materials that can not be obtained from the Moon must be imported from Earth. Asteroid mining is a source of alternative materials.
Maps Stanford torus
General characteristics
- Locations: Point Lays of Earth L5 Lagrangian
- Total mass: 10 million tonnes (including radiation shield (95%), habitat, and atmosphere)
- Diameter: 1.790 m (1.11 mi)
- Diameter of dwelling pipe: 130 m (430 ft)
- Radius: 6 radius 15 m (49Ã, ft)
- Rotation: 1 revolution per minute
- Radiation shield: 1.7 meters (5.6 feet) thick raw lunar ground
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See also
- Dyson sphere
- Asteroid mining
- Month Colonization
- Rotating wheel space station
- Reasonable circle
- O'Neill cylinder
- Colonization of space
References
External links
- Space Colonization: Stanford Torus Station Report - NASA Ames around 1975 on YouTube
- Visualize the construction of stanford torus from an asteroid mining facility in 2010
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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