Solar System Explorer - for kjer_99 by NefariousDrO
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Before the development of the Rephi Portals Earth's nations were in the process of exploring their solar system. The earliest efforts were robotic, and then advanced to using systems to prepare for human explorers as well. One of the first human missions to Mars placed the crew in habitats that were extended out from the main axis, and the entire ship spun to simulate gravity for the long voyage. The drive was a newly developed VASIMR (Variable Specific Impule Magnetoplasma Rocket) made possible by the Polywell Fusion reactors first invented by Dr. Bussard. Humanity was taking its very first steps beyond our own little world at last.
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A long time ago kjer_99 suggested I model one of the tethered ships being considered by NASA. Well, this isn't quite the same thing, but it's fairly close. I'm still not sure if I could quite pull off modeling them to my own satisfaction, but I'm getting there. In the meantime, I hope this will do. So this one is for you, man, you've always had good suggestions and ideas, and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to follow up on yours.
The ship was modeled in Bryce 6, stars in the background and engine exhaust was done in Photoshop. And yes, the Polywell Fusion reactor is a real idea, and work is still being done to make it a reality. I for one hope it works because if it does it opens the solar system at last. VASIMR is also a real idea, and some research has been done in the technique, but it requires alot of power so nobody had dared try to implement it in space (a 12 MW nuclear reactor in space would kind of upset alot of folks, after all)
Thanks for taking a look and enjoy what's left of the weekend!
Comments (16)
claude19
It is a certainty today ... the survival of humanity is due to his own genius. In effetn regardless of risk of collision in 2026 with a giant asteroid, the death of our sun 4 billion years, does the sun; development activities of the chonosphère will force humanity to leave its magnificent spaceship to emigrate to another galaxy! The Earth, by its ideal place will be extended by gravitational forces, while charred on living cells ... the problem compounded in the distant future, the clash of our galaxy with the Andromeda galaxy! What our species struggle for life in the future hundreds of years ... Thank you for this wonderful example of exploratory spacecraft ...
peedy
Great model! Corrie
grafikeer
Excellent modelling and engine flare effects,love the sense of speed in this!
faroutsider
Can we turn back, please? I forgot to pack a toothbrush... Excellent model.
3x3
great modelling my friend x
blankfrancine
wonderful modeling again! great sci-fi.
annie5
Fantastic modelling..very good work! :)
unnyFies
Nice model of a realistic spacecraft.
jocko500
super madelling here
Ancel_Alexandre
Great pic, story and explanation! Nice work!
geirla
Excellent modeling! I like this design - it's got radiators and the crew is far away from the reactor. Do those pods double as landers? I've read about putting a demonstration VASIMR on the IIS for reboost (you can get a few tens of kilowatts of the solar panels) but with the shuttle getting grounded, I'm not sure how they're going to launch such a thing.
kjer_99
I was most surprised and pleased at your dedication of this render to me; and especially happy to think something I said influenced your creation of this fabulous model. Thank you! Do do believe someday you'll come up with a tethered ship model that we both will like, but in the meantime this will certainly do.
tofi
A great interpretation of this sci-fi model! Such a wonderful, overwhelming feeling to look at this... and ponder what is out there... the outer limits.... fantastic presentation and composition!
preeder
EXCELLENT.
DMWVCS
NICE, modular design!!! David
Chipka
Fantastic design. NASA should tap you for inspiration, especially since our own limited fleet of space shuttles is heading to the mothball yards next year. I love this design and I wonder what the crew on board must be thinking as they head off to Mars. Trivia fact: Russia has a 100% failure rate with reaching Mars...well...a Russian (then Soviet) probe did manage a fly-by as intended, but it was during a globe spanning Martian dust storm, so that mission was essentially useless. Everything else Russian that went towards Mars either crashed, exploded, disappeared or otherwise failed in its mission, at least up through the 1990s. American spacecraft using Russian-made parts also failed. How weird is that? I bring this up because I wonder who manufactured this particular beauty? Your attention to detail is stunning and wonderful, right down to the support struts for each of the crew modules. I suspect that a whole lot of anti-nausea training got tucked under the crew's collective belt as well...since there is no ring connecting the modules. The only way from work stations to crew quarters, etc would be to "climb" from spin-gravity sections, enter the nil-gravity core, then "descend" back into gravity. NASA's been looking at ship designs since they got a load of the Alexei Leonov in the movie 2010. The most cost efficient designs for such vessels all have that stomach-flutter feature. I particularly like the presence of it here. It's such a mirror of what we already know and what we're already taking tentative steps toward achieving. And well...I've rambled on enough so now I'm going to just shut up!