February 2019
A universal spaceship design concept
... of this type can be rotated around its vertical central axis without changing any hull configuration, creating a centrifugal force. Therefore, this simple spaceship design offers a way to generate an artificial gravity that allows crew members...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
... a mechanically strong floor to support it against the centrifugal force (the artificial gravity), but this only requires ... the geometry of the cylinder and the fact that the centrifugal acceleration varies depending on the distance from the axis of ...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... cost compared to orbital settlements. Regardless of the solution to the problem of protection of the population from hypogravity, centrifuge settlements could provide a method of space expansion across all small bodies of the solar system. About the...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... could be to require mums-to-be to enjoy a centrifuge ride for the duration of pregnancy. Creating new ...mention the potential for pelvic fracture during labour or the need to be centrifuged while pregnant. Such is poetic license. The truth is we don’t...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
... ISS ROS In preparing for flight, we use the parabola aircraft Ilyushin-76 MDK, a hydrolaboratory, and the TsF-18 centrifuge Physically preparing the body for the various specifics of space flight Preparation on what to do after landing in different...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
...influence of an array of mechanisms. There is some suggestion that asteroid rotation is constrained by ‘spin limits’, beyond which centrifugal acceleration would cause material to escape from non-monolithic ‘rubble pile’ asteroids. Indeed, this might...
