Re: Solutions to the Zero-G problem

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Oct 27 2000 - 10:54:45 MDT


Michael S. Lorrey writes:
> It is an idea that has been considered, however the problems of maintaining
> rotating and non-rotating sections of a ship or space station adds to complexity

The only nonrotating section you need on a Mars mission is the antenna
array, not even that, if the whole axis is aligned.

A truss-connected dumbbell would do.



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Mon May 28 2001 - 09:50:18 MDT