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Taking a break, considering a mini CELSS ‘experiment’
I just read the Orbital Space Settlement Tasks page on Al Globus’ website. Very interesting reading. I think I might try this mini Closed Ecological Life Support System ‘experiment’: Do research into...
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The Next Generation of Space Stations: A Conceptual Design
As described in previous posts, Marotta Space Research has created a conceptual design for the next generation of space stations. This conceptual design achieves the strategic goals necessary to...
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Basic specifications for Uptown
The following post describes the basic specifications of the “Uptown” component of the next generation of space stations. Uptown: is a ring 148 meters in diameter and 47.8 meters in depth (from...
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Refinery is being…refined
Working hard on the specs for Refinery and making some interesting discoveries. Happily, the design will be simplified and certain manufacturing processes – namely liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen...
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Basic specifications of Refinery
Refinery will demonstrate that useful products can be manufactured on an industrial scale from asteroidal and lunar raw materials. Manufacturing using ‘in-situ’ raw materials is necessary in order to...
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Ad Astra carries article about next generation space station idea
In the winter 2013 edition, Ad Astra has an article asking, “What comes after ISS?” Doris Hamill, the author, states, “[a] city in space would begin where ISS has brought us.” In short, her PISCES idea...
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Introducing MSIS: the Main Street in Space.
Marotta Space Research is working on a space station design different from previous proposals. It is smaller in scope yet more feasible to construct in the short term. It is inspired by the PISCES...
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Main Street in Space: Module Specifications
This post will describe the basic specifications of a single Main Street in Space (MSIS) module. is a linear “spine” 10.5 meters in length and 3.6 meters in width at the longest and widest points. It...
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Announcing the “Progress” page on MSR
Check out the new “Progress” section on Marotta Space Research. It will chronicle the progress of key innovations that are enabling space development. Feel free to make suggestions if you think...
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Tweets from Space
Check out an article from Marotta Space Research. It will be posted shortly at Space Safety Magazine. Tweets from the High Frontier Space. It’s vast. It’s majestic. It’s so big it defies...
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