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Sol Station 3.5a
Sol Station 3.5a is one of three research platforms between the Earth and Mars. These stations orbit our Sun and are largely out of the way of traffic for supplies and fresh faces. The stations spin about a central docking station at nearly 0.78rpm to provide about 0.9g to the habitation pods. The main generator acts as a counterweight.
Only 107 parts in this "micro-scale" station but these shots do not have ANY forced perspective. My original estimates put the radius to the hab pods at around 1320m (0.82 miles). With my original scale of each hab pod being 25 studs long, that would have been about 3600 studs long. Quick math, that is around 28.8 meters long. For just PART of the moc...
Needless to say, that was not on the table. I decided to shift scales from minifig to "micro" and found a much more realistic 260ish studs long if each pod was only 2 studs.
More quick math and a we get that the radius to the generator's CoM should be around 500m (100 studs at this scale).
The scale was fudged a tiny bit when building and the final model is 362 studs long.
Finally, the sizing specifics: The station is 362 studs long. If built, it would stretch 2.9m. This puts it at around 0.16% of the actual stations length.
It would be cool to see plans for a station like this to come out of NASA or the ESA but let's be real--no one wants to haul more than a mile of cable structure out to a stable orbit between Earth and Mars.
If you want to see some of the math behind this project, check here and here.
Sol Station 3.5a
Sol Station 3.5a is one of three research platforms between the Earth and Mars. These stations orbit our Sun and are largely out of the way of traffic for supplies and fresh faces. The stations spin about a central docking station at nearly 0.78rpm to provide about 0.9g to the habitation pods. The main generator acts as a counterweight.
Only 107 parts in this "micro-scale" station but these shots do not have ANY forced perspective. My original estimates put the radius to the hab pods at around 1320m (0.82 miles). With my original scale of each hab pod being 25 studs long, that would have been about 3600 studs long. Quick math, that is around 28.8 meters long. For just PART of the moc...
Needless to say, that was not on the table. I decided to shift scales from minifig to "micro" and found a much more realistic 260ish studs long if each pod was only 2 studs.
More quick math and a we get that the radius to the generator's CoM should be around 500m (100 studs at this scale).
The scale was fudged a tiny bit when building and the final model is 362 studs long.
Finally, the sizing specifics: The station is 362 studs long. If built, it would stretch 2.9m. This puts it at around 0.16% of the actual stations length.
It would be cool to see plans for a station like this to come out of NASA or the ESA but let's be real--no one wants to haul more than a mile of cable structure out to a stable orbit between Earth and Mars.
If you want to see some of the math behind this project, check here and here.