SpaceX's New Plan To Create Artificial Gravity In Space
Published at : October 28, 2021
SpaceX engineers have proposed artificial gravity To Create Artificial Gravity In Space.
Doesn't gravity have a lesser effect in space than on Earth?
This is because, in science fiction, artificial gravity exists, even if it doesn't exist in the actual world, at least not yet.
“Why would he need to create artificial gravity for Starship?”, you may ask.
In order to prevent such health effects before crews even reach deep-space destinations like the Moon or Mars, where the long-term effects of low-g are still unknown, mitigation strategies will be needed.
In extreme cases, astronauts could literally be killed by normal gravity if they spent way too much time in space, with bone and muscle breaking down alongside blood vessels bursting due to the sudden shift in pressure.
Artificial gravity is the creation of an inertial force that mimics the effects of a gravitational force, usually by rotation.
Artificial gravity, or rotational gravity, is thus the appearance of a centrifugal force in a rotating frame, as opposed to the force experienced in linear acceleration, which by the equivalence principle is indistinguishable from gravity.
So naturally, the earliest and most common examples proposed to make artificial gravity aim to build spinning ships – similar to the classic Rotor carnival ride, centrifugal force will press the crew and equipment against the vessel's interior, mimicking gravity.
YouTuber ‘smallstars’ has proposed a concept that he calls the Gravity Link Starship (GLS), a variation of SpaceX’s Starship that will be able to provide its own artificial gravity.
Depending on how realistic a franchise is trying to be, starships will either generate their own gravity using some special device or through rotating sections.
Once enough velocity was generated to simulate Earth-normal gravity (9.8 m/s², or 1 g), the passenger ships would reorient themselves again to face inward towards the “hub” ship.
Dr. Robert Zubrin, a long-time proponent of manned Martian exploration, proposed tethering a crew module to the expended launch stage and rotating them around a common center of gravity.
We simply have to wait and see what SpaceX does to be able to create artificial gravity as the company hasn’t exactly been quite open about its plans, likely because it’s still in its early stages and they would rather prefer private criticism than scathing public criticism of their plans currently.
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Doesn't gravity have a lesser effect in space than on Earth?
This is because, in science fiction, artificial gravity exists, even if it doesn't exist in the actual world, at least not yet.
“Why would he need to create artificial gravity for Starship?”, you may ask.
In order to prevent such health effects before crews even reach deep-space destinations like the Moon or Mars, where the long-term effects of low-g are still unknown, mitigation strategies will be needed.
In extreme cases, astronauts could literally be killed by normal gravity if they spent way too much time in space, with bone and muscle breaking down alongside blood vessels bursting due to the sudden shift in pressure.
Artificial gravity is the creation of an inertial force that mimics the effects of a gravitational force, usually by rotation.
Artificial gravity, or rotational gravity, is thus the appearance of a centrifugal force in a rotating frame, as opposed to the force experienced in linear acceleration, which by the equivalence principle is indistinguishable from gravity.
So naturally, the earliest and most common examples proposed to make artificial gravity aim to build spinning ships – similar to the classic Rotor carnival ride, centrifugal force will press the crew and equipment against the vessel's interior, mimicking gravity.
YouTuber ‘smallstars’ has proposed a concept that he calls the Gravity Link Starship (GLS), a variation of SpaceX’s Starship that will be able to provide its own artificial gravity.
Depending on how realistic a franchise is trying to be, starships will either generate their own gravity using some special device or through rotating sections.
Once enough velocity was generated to simulate Earth-normal gravity (9.8 m/s², or 1 g), the passenger ships would reorient themselves again to face inward towards the “hub” ship.
Dr. Robert Zubrin, a long-time proponent of manned Martian exploration, proposed tethering a crew module to the expended launch stage and rotating them around a common center of gravity.
We simply have to wait and see what SpaceX does to be able to create artificial gravity as the company hasn’t exactly been quite open about its plans, likely because it’s still in its early stages and they would rather prefer private criticism than scathing public criticism of their plans currently.
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