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Deep Space Habitats
Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Every known planet, moon, and asteroid in our solar system occupies a volume of space both...
Dark Sky Stations, Stratospheric Satellites, and Ultra Low Orbit Infrastructure
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The Next Space Station
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur The International Space Station has been operating for almost two decades, but a successor for the ISS hasn't been chosen yet. Today we will look at some of the options for our future...
Colonizing Cislunar Space and the Lagrange Points
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ To travel to other planets, we will first have to build up are infrastructure closer to home, in orbit of Earth. The best place to get all the mass for those space stations and rocket fuel depots is from...
Matrioshka Worlds
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ The galaxy contains countless billions of planets we might colonize, and we may build far more living area as space station habitats and megastructures, but Earth will always be unique and living here...
Upward Bound: The Environments of Space Habitats
A look at environments and ecology on truly massive space stations. Check out Cheddar's video on Extinction: https://chdr.tv/youtu0277c As we expand in space and build ever large space stations, true space habitats, we will need to incorporate ecosystems into them....
