{"id":26475,"date":"2016-06-05T05:46:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/tensegrity-approaches-to-in-space-construction-of-a-1g-growable-habitat"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:17:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:17:22","slug":"tensegrity-approaches-to-in-space-construction-of-a-1g-growable-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/tensegrity-approaches-to-in-space-construction-of-a-1g-growable-habitat","title":{"rendered":"Tensegrity Approaches to In-Space Construction of a 1g Growable Habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tensegrity-approaches-to-in-space-construction-of-a-1g-growable-habitat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve seen that tensegrity sphere toy. I own one. This is like Bigelow modules but a step beyond.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA NIAC has funded a proposal that seeks to design a rotating habitat with a robotic system that constructs the structure and provides a habitat growth capability.<\/p>\n<p>The tensegrity technology allows minimum mass of both the habitat and the robotic system. This proposal solves three unsolved space travel problems:<\/p>\n<p>A) growth,<br \/> b) radiation protection, and<br \/> c) gravity.<\/p>\n<p>Their innovative tensegrity-based evolvable habitat designs will solve three critical technical problems that NASA must address:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/05\/tensegrity-approaches-to-in-space.html\">http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/05\/tensegrity-approaches-to-in-space.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve seen that tensegrity sphere toy. I own one. This is like Bigelow modules but a step beyond. NASA NIAC has funded a proposal that seeks to design a rotating habitat with a robotic system that constructs the structure and provides a habitat growth capability. The tensegrity technology allows minimum mass of both the habitat [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26475","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61626,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26475\/revisions\/61626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}