What would it take to build a megaship in space? Engineering
Whether those proposals will end up providing the foundation for building a miles-long vessel in orbit remains to be seen and is, in fact, the entire point of the exercise. But how far-fetched is it to attempt to build that kind of vessel in space? Not as outlandish as it might seem.The ISS as seen from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during its departure on Nov.
What would it take to build a mile-long spacecraft? Doing what we've already done with the International Space Station another nine times over.is already about 357 feet long and 246 feet wide . This is just about the size of an American football field, and took 10 years and more than 30 missions to assemble, involving the efforts of five different space agencies representing 15 countries.
"I think it's entirely feasible," Mason Peck, a professor of aerospace engineering at Cornell University and a former NASA chief technologist, told in September."I would describe the problems here not as insurmountable impediments, but rather problems of scale."While microgravity does wonders for relieving stress on a structure, it does not eliminate it. And the longer the vessel, the more stresses can be amplified or ripple through a structure, requiring more consideration of the forces that any mile-long ship would be subjected to.
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