Orbital Station Centrifuge for Artifical Gravity

>>8963745
Forgot the link for the other one that never made it past the drawing board,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus-X#Status_as_of_2011

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3MB, 640x360px

>>8963745
>page 10 bump

One more try. I guess I should have posted something else like the most popular anime waifu as my OP image, but then I probably don't want that type of people ITT anyway.

>>8963745
Reusing station parts is a bad idea. Most of them are made of aluminum. Aluminum has no fatigue limit, which means eventually the modules WILL break. Even aluminum soda cans on earth should eventually burst from variations in atmospheric pressure. It would be bad if this happened.

>>centrifuge
it's just an engineering challenge, no big deal.

>>8963745
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifuge_Accommodations_Module
Energia is currently developing a similar-sized centrifuge for their inflatable habitat, but as always, they are short on money.

It's the only space centrifuge project that is more or less alive currently.

>>8965897
What is really needed for future stations is the experience in maintaining old hardware and handling emergencies/repairs in space, and nothing can contribute to this more than ISS. Russians had something like that on Mir, with Spektr/Progress collision and breach, and also with Salyut 7. NASA also had Apollo 13, but this was too long ago.

>>8965897
Evidently it is cheaper than putting up new stuff. As always people have a poverty mentality. But, learning how to keep things running on aging tech is a valid and needed skill.

>>8965899
Yeah, I'm reading up on that. It seems that it is small and only for experiments inside the inflatable habitat. At least it is a step in the right direction. Though the only thing I can find on it is this text,

>"We have created a small-radius centrifuge. This method has been demonstrated to be viable to simulate artificial gravity," the Russian Academy of Sciences' RIBP Director Oleg Orlov told reporters.

Maybe we should make one on Earth and put hamsters into it. Like a Hampture-gravity experiment.

>>8965897
>Most of them are made of aluminum.
All of them are multi layered (aluminum doesn't hold pressure itself), and the shell doesn't experience any real load cycles, there are specially designed structural elements for this.

>>8965907
>>aluminum doesn't hold pressure itself)
Prove it motherfucker.

>>8965906
No, that's just a prototype which has been built for proving a concept of a larger one. They have a preliminary design for it, but no extra money so it just remains in their wishlist at this time.

>>8965921
>>8965907
https://www.nap.edu/read/5532/chapter/6#29

That's a pretty good read if you are into the subject.

>>8965922
>no extra money

How do you give money to something like this without getting put on a retardo-government-pickup list?

>>8965921
Russians don't use aluminum in their hulls for holding the pressure, they use carbon plastic composites. Aluminum is there only in the honeycomb shields for MMOD protection.

>>8965886
It's best for the OP's image to have an interesting thumbnail. A blank rectangle conveys no useful information.

>>8965886
was that a bubble from the pool at the middle?

>>8963745
gravity is already artificial

>>8965897
>it's just an engineering challenge, no big deal.
Building a space centrifuge of a sufficient size is a big deal actually. It's surprisingly complex, especially due to its failure modes.