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American company “DC United Space Structures”, based in Washington, will develop a space station new generation. From the famous International Space Station it will primarily differ in impressive size. Her the diameter will be one hundred meters, the length is four hundred meters. Moreover, manned orbital station will have artificial gravity.
The form that the Americans plan to give is very interesting. its new brainchild – a giant mushroom. A similar concept was proposed by DC United Space Structures engineers Ted Maseika and Bill Kemp Artificial gravity at the station will be achieved by rotating the spacecraft around central axis. The rotation speed is reported to be be 4.22 rpm. The resulting centrifugal there will be enough strength to avoid weightlessness. Wherein rotation of the main cylindrical body will be carried out in one side, and the mushroom-shaped dome – in the opposite. it necessary for arranging a special docking module, where will be transporting spacecraft.
It is planned to place a command center and facilities in the dome crew life support. The developers have calculated that on the construction of the mushroom-shaped station will take thirty years, that is, three times more time than the construction of the International Space station. Assembly of the device in orbit will be performed by robots built specially for this purpose. The cost of the project will be unprecedented – over three hundred billion dollars.
Gravity ISS Robots
