Space Station Concepts

[blackstar]

Wondering if anyone knows or could find the name of the Director of Truss Structures for McDonnell Douglas in the final days of Freedom's design.

I can't remember or find it. I'm writing a memoir about my non-linear design to replace the platform's equilateral triangle truss structures that we were R&D'ing before congress pulled the plug!

Have you checked to see if there is an alumni group for people who worked on their space systems? If it exists, you can ask there. Explain up front why you are looking.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Startup wants to build a space station to refuel satellites

Orbit Fab hopes to charge $20m for a hydrazine refill – and you thought fuel prices down here were bad!

www.theregister.com

 

[steelpillow]

Startup wants to build a space station to refuel satellites

Orbit Fab hopes to charge $20m for a hydrazine refill – and you thought fuel prices down here were bad!

www.theregister.com

Can't think of a better place to store hydrazine. Oh, wait, maybe geosynchronous would be better.

 

[publiusr]

But no boil-off I presume?

 

[Byeman]

Startup wants to build a space station to refuel satellites

Orbit Fab hopes to charge $20m for a hydrazine refill – and you thought fuel prices down here were bad!

www.theregister.com

Can't think of a better place to store hydrazine. Oh, wait, maybe geosynchronous would be better.

Not really.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Vast Space to develop artificial-gravity space station

Vast Space to develop artificial-gravity space station

spacenews.com

 

[publiusr]

I could see a wet stage version of that sent to Titan as a fractionating column:

Fractionating column - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

--but unmanned.

Now, would this feel some of the same forces a falling chimney encounters?

The Physics of the Falling Chimney: Why they all break when falling - Probing the Universe

When a tall structure (such as a chimney) is tipped over, it almost always breaks in mid-air as it falls. The real question here is why this

probingphysics.com

I would think a torus might also be better able to generate a mini-magnetosphere---and house--perhaps--a tokamak due to how it is built.