While rotating habitats provide spin-gravity, large ring or cylinder habitats may often be too big and resource-intensive for most smaller crews or habitats. Graphics: Bryan Versteeg spacehabs.com
Hammer Habitats
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Von Braun Wheel Space Station
The von Braun wheel is one of the best known early designs, incorporating spin-gravity via rotation and inspiring many variants in the last 80 years. To find out more about them and other megastructures, see the Megastructure Compendium: https://youtu.be/1xt13dn74wc...
Space Habitats
Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. For humanity to explore space and distant worlds, we will need to construct enormous artificial habitats in...
Continent-Sized Rotating Space Habitats
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Mankind's future is among the stars, but not necessarily on other planets. Instead we might forge giant space stations that are entire artificial worlds, and today we'll explore some of...
Life on board an O’neill Cylinder
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ O'Neill Cylinders space stations are examples of large rotating habitats able to be constructed in space in which people and even a complex ecology might be transplanted. But what would it be like living...