{"id":137680,"date":"2022-04-03T20:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T01:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-huge-kilometer-scale-space-station-with-simulated-gravity-could-be-launched-from-a-single-rocket"},"modified":"2022-04-03T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T01:02:18","slug":"a-huge-kilometer-scale-space-station-with-simulated-gravity-could-be-launched-from-a-single-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-huge-kilometer-scale-space-station-with-simulated-gravity-could-be-launched-from-a-single-rocket","title":{"rendered":"A Huge Kilometer-Scale Space Station With \u201cSimulated Gravity\u201d Could Be Launched From a Single Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T1BkOJl9qa4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Artificial gravity remains the stuff of science fiction. But dealing with no gravity causes significant problems in many astronauts, ranging from bone deterioration to loss of sight. An alternative method that might eliminate some of these problems is \u201csimulated gravity,\u201d which uses a spinning structure to create centrifugal force that would have the same effect on the body as gravity would. Whether or not this would solve the problems caused by lack of gravity remains to be seen. Still, NASA seems <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/nasa-selects-advanced-futuristic-space-technology-concepts-for-early-study\/\">keen on the idea<\/a> \u2013 to the tune of a $600,000 NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase II grant to a team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Washington (UW) who is looking to develop a structure that can simulate full Earth gravity and be launched in a single rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The project in question is \u201cKilometer-Scale Space Structure from a Single Launch,\u201d which was initially admitted to the NIAC program last year. Over the past year, they successfully completed a Phase I project where they \u201canalyze[d] a mission concept analogous to the Lunar Gateway\u201d that could deploy into a kilometer-long structure. Having met NASA\u2019s expectations as part of that program, the team, headed by professor Zac Manchester of CMU and Jeffery Lipton of UW, were recently accepted as 2022 NIAC fellows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial gravity remains the stuff of science fiction. But dealing with no gravity causes significant problems in many astronauts, ranging from bone deterioration to loss of sight. An alternative method that might eliminate some of these problems is \u201csimulated gravity,\u201d which uses a spinning structure to create centrifugal force that would have the same effect [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}