#Space Station Concept

[lonestarflight]

Space Station Concepts: Space Operations Center

"The SOC is a self-contained orbital facility built up of several Shuttle-launched modules. With resupply, on-orbit refurbish- ment and orbit maintenance, it is capable of continuous operation for an indefinite period. In the nominal operational mode, the SOC is manned continuously, but unmanned operation is possible.

The present mission management and control process is characterized by a people-intensive ground monitoring and control operation involving large supporting ground information and control facilities and a highly- integrated ground-flight crew operation. In order to reduce dependence on Earth monitoring and control, the SOC would have to provide for increased systems monitoring; fault isolation and failure analysis, and the ability to store and call up extensive sets of data to support the onboard control of the vehicle; and the onboard capability for daily mission and other activity planning."

"Like most other space station studies from the mid/late 1970s its primary mission was the assembly and servicing of large spacecraft in Earth orbit -- not science. NASA/JSC signed a contract with Boeing in 1980 to further develop the design. Like most NASA space station plans, SOC would be assembled in orbit from modules launched on the Space Shuttle. The crew's tour of duty would have been 90 days. NASA originally estimated the total cost to be $2.7 billion, but the estimated cost had increased to $4.7 billion by 1981. SOC would have been operational by 1990.

NASA's Johnson Spaceflight Center extended the Boeing contract in February 1982 to study a cheaper, modular, evolutionary approach to assembling the Space Operations Center. An initial power module would consist of solar arrays and radiators. The next launches would have delivered a space tug 'garage', two pressurized crew modules and a logistics module. The completed Space Operations Center also would have contained a satellite servicing and assembly facility and several laboratory modules. Even with this revised approach, however, the cost of the SOC program had grown to $9 billion. Another problem was Space Operations Center's primary mission: spacecraft assembly and servicing. The likely users (commercial satellite operators and telecommunications companies) were not really interested in the kind of large geostationary space platforms proposed by NASA. By 1983, the only enthusiastic users for NASA's space station plans were scientists working in the fields of microgravity research and life sciences. Their needs would dictate future space station design although NASA's 1984 station plans did incorporate a SOC-type spacecraft servicing facility as well."

Article by Marcus Lindroos, from astronautix.com: link

NASA ID: link, S79-10137

Boeing photo no. R-1859, link, link

#Space Operations Center #Space Station Freedom #Space Station Concept #Space Station #Concept Art #Space Station Program #Space #Earth #Space Shuttle #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #1979 #1980s #my post

[science70]

Syd Mead, space station concept art, c. 1970s.

#science #technology #space exploration #space station #concept art #Syd Mead #USA #1970s

[blogfanreborn777]

Star Base One by Chris Dien

#fantasy art #fantasy #concept art #digital art #art #sci fi #science fiction #sci fi art #science fiction art #sf #sf art #futuristic #high tech #cosmic #cosmic art #space #outer space #space art #space station #star base #moon #space ship #space fleet #planets #stars #chris dien

[artofpeteashford]

Concept sketch to final painting for a future setting space station orbiting Mars

#peteashford #science fiction #scifiart #futurenoir #spaceship #space #space art #space station #planet mars #concept art #digital drawing #scifi

[trans-cuchulainn]

extremely funny watching my irish teacher who mostly deals with medieval lit and 18th century poetry encounter a) sci-fi in irish and b) kneecap

#she was LOST #now she knows how i feel all the time lol she was finding it so stressful not to know any of the vocab #i was showing her pictures of space stations trying to explain the concepts lol #bc she'd got the words but she didn't know what they actually MEANT

[alphamecha-mkii]

Babylon 5: The Road Home - Color and Lighting Concepts by Mikeal Javaid-Camua

#Babylon 5 #Babylon 5: The Road Home #Sci-Fi #Mecha #Spaceship #Space Station #Concept Art #Mikeal Javaid-Camua

[theseworldsareyours]

Research Orbital IO-15 by Jeppe Mygh

#Jeppe Mygh #sci-fi art #concept art #space station #orbit #space habitat #space industry

[camerxn]

Star Line Plan by Baoart

#sci fi #concept art #space station #digital 2d #digital 3d

[humanoidhistory]

Working with a remote-control arm in "Space Station: Bold New Step Beyond Earth," 1986.

#space #remote control #tech #illustration #space station #concept art

[ss13polaris]

After some "play testing", I think this is ready to post!

This character generator can be used for a complete character concept, or to fill in details about important people and events in a character's life. I've also had a lot of fun doing it collaboratively with people, using the results to tell the whole story of a character's life up to the moment they found themselves working at Cynosure Station.

Tables do skew towards people (human or alien immigrants) growing up in the "Solar cultural sphere" rather than alien societies, and alternative tables are provided for synthetics where applicable.

Some of the tables could also definitely be useful for general "hard" sci-fi character generation, just omit the parts about anomalies, tech laws, and the skathari incursion!

Credit to @crynwr-drwg whose Elder Scrolls character generator formed the basis for these tables and idea for the spreadsheet format.

#space station 13 #ss13 polaris #character concept #character generator

[lonestarflight]

"Concept for use of a Saturn V-launched Apollo CSM with an enormous 33 foot (10 meter) diameter space laboratory equipped with a 10 foot (3 meter) diameter astronomical telescope.

Status: Study 1968"

Information from Astronautix.com: link

Posted on Flickr by Drew Granston: link

#Apollo CSM Block II #NASA #Apollo Program #Apollo Applications Program #Saturn V #Saturn INT-21 #Rocket #Space Station #Space Station Concept #Space Telescope #1968 #study #my post

[science70]

Interior illustration from House in Orbit (Дім на орбіті) by Pavlo Klushantsev (Веселка, 1979).

#science #technology #space station #concept art #book #Pavlo Klushantsev #Павло Клушанцев #House in Orbit #Дім на орбіті #Ukraine #1979

[blogfanreborn777]

Destiny 2: Io Pyramidion by Jesse Van Dijk

#fantasy art #fantasy #concept art #digital art #art #sci fi #science fiction #sci fi art #science fiction art #sf #sf art #destiny #space station #sci fi scape #pyramidion #jesse van dijk #destiny 2

[prokhorvlg]

☕Zero-G Coffee Makers

They make those endless nights through the starry void just a little more bearable. Each thumper has at least a hundred of these bad boys to keep the crew going. Might be a bit heavy, but it's worth every kilogram!

A bit of insight into the Hufschmidt 5600, a sleek and complex device with 55 different modes, often used on Coalition thumpers.

The standard coffee maker of the interplanetary Union - the Sultan ABK-1568 - doubles as a bludgeoning tool, and makes a strange grinding noise.

Finally, the RUSL 229 is what spacers reach for when they settle. Better than a capsule, but worse than a proper brew.

#sunsetsystem #retrofuturism #cassette futurism #space #space station #art #digital art #concept art #artists on tumblr #sketches #sketch #illustration #items

[adobecult]

i watch a few youtubers who play itch.io games and a lot of recent horror ones are feeling very similar to myhouse.wad

#like. the last level w/ the gas station and the woods specifically #myhouse.wad #txt #not that it’s bad that they’re inspired by it not that myhouse was unique #it’s just a really stunning example of reviving otherwise sort of stale tropes like the backrooms+analog horror #and args and creepypastas about video games and all that shit #i hope the trend leans more towards reimagining these concepts than merely imitating them #like how myhouse returns to one of the pinnacle examples of ‘backrooms’ style fiction #and plays in the space of a 30+ year old unrelated video game #god i love myhouse.wad i want to write a zampano-length book about it..

[realspaceships]

Von Braun's Lunar Lander

#youtube #What if #Von Braun's Lunar Lander concept #space station #realistic spaceships #hazegrayarts #close formation flying #watch out for the spent fuel tanks #moon rocks kicked up in your windows