Ship Design Philosophy

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Spaceships: Accommodations and Central cube sets Paris micro-flat into work/living/rest modes

To create more functionality in a 16-square-meter (172-square-foot) Paris apartment, designers Elisa Nobile and Enrico Bona created a custom cabinet containing two beds, a desk, a kitchen and a bathroom with an unfolding shower. The furniture cube leaves more than half the space clear so it can be used as a rotating bedroom, dining room or home office: a secondary table descends from an adjacent wall offering space for the owner’s model-making interests.

The designers (EDB Studio) wanted the cube’s multifunctionality to remain hidden so they avoided handles, instead relying on a push/pull system to unfold furniture or open cabinets. To prevent fingerprints on the white cabinets, they used a nano-tech material called Fenix which if scratched can be repaired by applying heat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq2lRLcB_pQ

A modular solution to easily furnish staterooms.

Probably have to ensure that corridors are large enough to just install as one unit, otherwise it will have to assembled in the stateroom.

 

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Starships: Hulls, Armoured Bulkheads, and The UNSC Pillar of Autumn -- The MOST DETAILED Breakdown (ft. Installation00) | Halo Lore

Today, we partner with Installation00, an excellent Halo Lore channel, to breakdown the PIllar of Autumn - the modified Halcyon Class Heavy Cruiser used to transport Master Chief to Installation 04 in Halo CE.

Like all UNSC Capital Ships, the Pillar of Autumn sported a massive magnetic accelerator cannon, thick titanium armor, but was also augmented with distinct modifications. We'll look at it all on today's Halo Capital Ship lore video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etUcTLautgc

Liquid armour.

 

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Spaceships: Life Support and Comets Just Taught Us How to Make Oxygen Out of Carbon Dioxide

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a new discovery that we can create molecular oxygen that we use to breathe from carbon dioxide directly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-53zXXuPCx8

Oxygen collider.

 

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Spaceships: Hulls and The Mars Homes That NASA Awarded $500k

AI SpaceFactory's "MARSHA" Mars Habitat just won NASA's 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge. Compared to others, their design looks downright luxurious. It has multiple floors, spacious living quarters, and plenty of windows to gaze upon the Martian horizon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCuZC-CRg4M

I'm not too sure how this would fare on atmospheric reentry, or possibly exit, but it seems a fast and neat way to get a cheap hull for a spaceship.

 

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Spaceships: Inspiration and Thunderbirds: Thunderbird One | Vehicle Breakdown

Thunderbirds are go! Spacedock breaks down International Rescue's Hypersonic Rocket Plane, Thunderbird One.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmNUBPVXils

Automatic electromagnetic detection and beam countermeasures system.

Not just an air/raft, a hover/bike.

 

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Spaceships: Engineering and Beam Powered Spaceships

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In order to get into space, we require either huge amounts of rocket fuel or dangerously powerful energy sources, making personal spacecraft a technology limited to science fiction. But by harnessing beamed power sources to run engines, we may be able to create a spaceplane cheap enough and safe enough that anyone could have one in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wol8EU6Rtbk


1. I remember first reading about beam powered transports in one of those Amazingesque pulp magazines that I picked up in yard sale; technically, it was a hall, since yard sales there were an alien concept. Power was beamable to at least inner system spacelanes, and possibly to the outer system; I suspect beyond near orbit this doesn't become possible.

2. With laser (ground) based propulsion, it was The Mote In God's Eye, which depending on the economics, probably an option inner system and upto a centiorbit for commercial interstellar vessels.

 

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Spaceships: Electronics and The ACTUAL Computer from the Saturn V Rocket - ft. SmarterEveryDay

We got an exclusive tour of the Saturn V Rocket's on-board computer system. So awesome!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olRF5Ckaga0


Computer model One, technology level seven.

 

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Spaceships: Electronics and How Apollo Astronauts Didn’t Get Lost Going to the Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-O3Uu4DuLw

Unless you punched the wrong button on the navigation computer, which apparently is possible by a tired and busy astronaut.

Guidance, navigation and control.

 

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Spaceships: Electronics and How Apollo Astronauts Didn’t Get Lost Going to the Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-O3Uu4DuLw

Unless you punched the wrong button on the navigation computer, which apparently is possible by a tired and busy astronaut.

Guidance, navigation and control.

 

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Guidance, navigation and control.

Control is the hard part. Mechanical systems are the weak point. Guidance and navigation are easy today. High school physics and a radiation-shielded phone will suffice in theory. In practice you might want to bring a long a little more insurance - a rad shielded computer with a very limited set of well tested software.

Guidance is knowing where to steer. Navigation is knowing where you are. Control is making the rocket do what guidance tells it to.

edit: This week Margaret Hamilton is trending in social media. She was an engineer pivotal to the Apollo project but being female, wasn't fully acknowledged outside of NASA (which has generally always been very equal) until very recently.

 

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Spaceships: Philosophy, Policy, Engineering, and Was the Apollo Program a Bad Idea? | A SciShow Documentary

Thank you to our Patreon patrons and Draper's "We Hack the Moon" initiative for supporting this very special episode of SciShow. Go to https://wehackthemoon.com to learn more about how engineers guided us to the moon and back with a fraction of today's technology.

The Apollo program was famous for being risky and expensive. It had a crunched timeline, daring astronauts, and lacked modern tech, and that all kind of makes you wonder… was the Apollo program a bad idea?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo3A5QQj5U0

Perfect storm.

 

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Inspiration: The Expanse Season 4 - Clip: Rocinante Lands on Ilus | Prime Video

... With the Ring Gates now open to thousands of new planets, a blood-soaked gold rush begins, igniting new conflicts between Earth, Mars, and the Belt. Meanwhile, on one unexplored planet, the Rocinante crew gets caught in a violent clash between an Earth mining corporation and desperate Belter settlers as deadly new threats from the protomolecule emerge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LrZiNOvp_c

Tailsitter.

Using the airlock connecting tube as dirtside boarding plank is a neat idea.

 

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Very neat idea. So, is the flexible plastic docking tube (core book p.143) sturdy enough to replicate this in Traveller?

 

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Using the airlock connecting tube as dirtside boarding plank is a neat idea.

You know that we've had these covered extending ramps for quite some time?

 

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As I recall, only the conveyor belt in the cargo hold would qualify.

 

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Inspiration: The Expanse | Season 4 Trailer Breakdown

Spacedock breaks down some thoughts on the SDCC teaser trailer for Season 4 of The Expanse and the excerpt that came with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz_zmUe8Gt8


1. The Roscinante appears to have some spare hardpoints.

2. Automatic shotguns.

3. They should do a crossover with Lord of the Rings, that would subvert expectations.

 

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Inspiration: The Expanse Season 4 Comic-Con Trailer (HD)

The series is set two hundred years in the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system. A hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain come together for what starts as the case of a missing young woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOcTECzQVdM

The full trailer.

Landing uses separate thrusters, or perhaps manoeuvre channels.

It's possible that manoeuvre drives can divert thrust into these separate channels, rather than having singular thruster cones, or possibly vectoring.

 

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Inspiration: Three Battlestar Ships You Missed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1S1TfR3-ZA

I guess I get to do more commentary.

1. Hornet: giant spider waiting for prey to enter it's den; kinda creepy. Or if you're going for an aquatic team, super guppy.

2. Alert: continuing with the fish theme, looks like a giant bass.

3. Demeter: flounder? Zebra boat

4. Flight pods and/or decks form an integral part, or get added on.

5. Tailored launch tubes for specific tonnage and hull configurations might need less volume.

 

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Inspiration: The Expanse - Teaser: TCA Season 4 Sizzle | Prime Video

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About The Expanse:
The disappearance of rich-girl-turned-political-activist Julie Mao links the lives of Ceres detective Joe Miller (Thomas Jane), accidental ship captain James Holden (Steven Strait) and U.N. politician Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo). Amidst political tension between Earth, Mars and the Belt, they unravel the single greatest conspiracy of all time.

About The Expanse Season 4:
Season 4 of The Expanse, its first as a global Amazon Original, begins a new chapter for the series with the crew of the Rocinante on a mission from the U.N. to explore new worlds beyond the Ring Gate. Humanity has been given access to thousands of Earth-like planets which has created a land rush and furthered tensions between the opposing nations of Earth, Mars and the Belt. Ilus is the first of these planets, one rich with natural resources but also marked by the ruins of a long dead alien civilization. While Earthers, Martians and Belters maneuver to colonize Ilus and its natural resources, these early explorers don’t understand this new world and are unaware of the larger dangers that await them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEENk6_XFoA


Renewed for Season Five.

It must be nice to have the most money around, even if your spouse just took a major bite out of the hoard.

I suspect it wasn't just plain altruism or a planned attempt to promote the Amazon streaming service; it could also be a subtle way to drum up support for the next stage of Amazon expansion, or at least, where no marketing corporation has gone before.

 

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Spaceships: Hulls and Why Engineers Used Wood To Build Spacecraft

Wood is such a traditional building material we sometimes forget that it can have exceptionally useful material properties. Some spacecraft have used wood and wood based materials in their construction, even the latest SLS rocket has large areas coated in cork to insulate it from heat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtxYP9fLMmk

Hah, I thought so.

1. Reentry heat shield.

2. Insulation.

3. Boiling wood to remove excess lignum and cellulose, and compressing it to remove the gaps in the cell structure, making it ten times stronger.

4. Metallic wood replacing lignum with metal at the microscopic level; maybe that means crystalization?