The engineers have finally woken up to the possibilities provided by a rotating ring held by suspension cable. Here they do not yet fully utilize the hub yet as a docking port and cable holding system. A cable swung around the hub can be attached to two points on the rim in order to balance tension.
It is all very simple. In fact it can be built out light and cheap to be followed by additions of modules as it progressed. It is then no trick to add additional tension wires as well to increase the overall weight.
I would also place a thin envelope about it all and inflate that to create an enclosed atmosphere as well.
It would not be wonderful but slapping patchs on will not be impossible either from the inside using drones.
It is completely possible to start small and add more rings while also slowing down the spin to maintain an outer ring g force of one.
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Orbital Assembly Building Parts to Eventually Scale to Large Rotating Space Stations
Brian Wang | January 13, 2021
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Orbital Assembly Corp. (OAC) is planning a virtual media event on Friday, January 29 from 1-2 pm PST / 4-5 pm EST. OAC was established in September 2019 as the world’s first large-scale space construction company and has generated a considerable online following since.They have widely viewed videos depicting Voyager Station, a large rotating habitat designed to mitigate deleterious health and physiological effects of microgravity, while also revolutionizing space travel and the commercial space sector.
On Dec. 31, they released a new video apprising people of our current progress.
They plan to make a D-Star construction working proof of concept for building large structures in space. They plan to progress to a large rotating frame where Astronauts could go and stay healthier with centrifical force to simulate gravity at night.
They have changed to a 5 meter access tube instead of 3 meter tube and created a system for space walking on the inner part of the ring.
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