"Artificial Gravity will usher in the dawn of the Astropocene Age. When humans can thrive amongst the Cosmos."
A Buildable Artificial Gravity Space Habitat.
Conforms to current scientific precepts.
An inexpensive test platform that emerges as a full featured community.
Two million cubic foot Bio-Habitat.
Transparent Free-Floating Atrium.
Ideal for a Lunar Cycler Orbit.
The Journey begins, now!
StarCycler is First in Class!
A single rocket can pop-up into a barebone station!
Spokes bring a pop-up quality for quick assembly which are ideal for enclosing large volumes and perfect for managing torsion between rim and hub. At the same time being cheap, light weight and strong.
Staging will drop the gimbaled engines rack along with the Solid Rocket Boosters.
The Core and External Fuel Tanks will lumber into orbit using the center engine for repurposing.
The core is immediately habitable with an assembly vehicle sitting atop.
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Home, Sweet Home! 🤯
2 Million cu ft of a breathable atmosphere with various levels of Artificial Gravity enclosing all equipment and utilities.
StarCycler features five 15ft floors. Floor two is faux to house machinery and large tanks. Floor Five is the Max-G floor designated for residence.
Using a cruise liner rule of two passengers per 200sq ft state room, the fifth floor can accommodate 350 passengers.
Floor 4 will be an open air promenade for large gatherings and shops.
The Sky Walk is shorter in width and will double as the environmental system providing wind, filtration, rain and diffuse sunshine.
The shielded Zero-G lab will double as a shelter during Solar Storms.
But what makes a home?
A community full of scientist, chemists, farmers and trades workers tending to the flotilla in accompaniment. Or the gaze of amazement in the Free-Floating Atrium.
Home is where you live your best lives!
Gyro Stability is Inverse Proportional to Controllability! 🤯
Motion Management is a simple spin-balancing system built atop a semi-stable shape. The devices can create, capture, transport, or stow angular momentum
Motion Management is the Moderator between Energy and Motion in this Isolated System. Momentum is harnessed in reservoirs to fuel the Motion Management system.
Heaver items such as machinery and tanks are located near the core to reduce momentum and Fc. Optimization for rotation must be considered in urban planning inclusive of the migrating mass ⇄ momentum.
But the real magic is GEM A Gyro/Electro/Momentum motor placed at Center of Mass. GEM can speed-up or bring the station or to a complete stop and also can provides 3600 of maneuverability or Gyroscopic Stability.
The StarCycler has a very unique physical world. Multiple Frames of Reference, persistent interplay between Mass ⇄ Energy ⇄ Motion.
And then there is GEM!
I Want More!
wBogies transport momentum around the station on a looped web track.
Their names change pending their location
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Spin-Balance
momoX
Angular Velocity is exchanged for Angular Momentum as a momoX commutes along the radius.
This is a
Motion ⇄ Momentum Exchange Engine.
Reservoirs
As momoX wBogies reach the end of their runs they enter SpeedMoR or SloMoR, reservoirs of Positive or Negative Momentum.
SpeedMoR remains active.
Elevators
Elevator service is necessary for commuting toward the core.
Elevator's heavier wBogies can localize the motion ⇄ momentum exchange.
Gyro
Helm
G.E.M.
GEM spins the station equally and opposite during spin-up, building up a significate amount of momentum.
This can be discharged back into the station to speed-up or down the station.
During High-Speed phases, Gyro Forces manifest which can provide Stability or Orientation Maneuvers.
GyroRudder
During deployment they promote Gyro Stability along the center-line. They must be retracted during maneuvers and their momentum will be absorbed by Elevator's wBogies.
StarCycler Institutes a Permanent Residence in Space
AG solves long-term space ailments but spinning has a side-effect of Coriolis discomfort. Susceptibility increases with faster rotations.
This Comfort Zone chart synthesizes On-Earth Studies to plot a comfort zone.
At variance are:
- AG Production (long-term disability)
- Rotation Rate (Coriolis discomfort)
- Station Size (constructability)
The rationale for StarCycler dimensions become obvious...
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Coriolis studies performed on Earth
StarCycler's designs are purposely simplistic to reveal the anomaly.
Some designsd may be overkill, having overlapping phenomena but redundancy is always desired in Space.
Everything is not as it seems. The Frames of References and forces are quite unique. The structure is basically a spoked suspension bridge looped about a Center of Mass.
The Center of Mass is the point of least resistance whereas little effort is required for reorientation, irrespective of the momentum of the rotating Mass.
These specifications and depictions are to scale from similar real world system to pursue accuracy.
Not accurate per se, just enough to ballpark proof of concept!
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