15 June 2018
Company aims to reach orbit with spinning rocket
... an electric-powered kinetic energy launch system that starts by spinning a vehicle up to 5,000 miles per hour around a centrifuge, before hurling it into space at hypersonic speeds. The approach might seem more in keeping with the latest...
February 2020
Investigation of the Coriolis effect in rotating space platforms
...training is the Coriolis effect experienced during the G-onsets (acceleration and deceleration of the centrifuge) and simultaneous cabin motion. As the centrifuge spins up or down to regulate the G-level, the cabin, where the pilot is situated, needs...
February 2016
A Moon of Their Own
...-2015 project has a number of important signature features, including: the possibility of two people simultaneously riding in the centrifuge adjustable brackets that allow for the change of distance between a participant’s head and the rotation axis...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... physics for an Earth Space Elevator concept. The green line marks the combined potential of gravity and centrifugal force balancing at GEO. Everything closer to Earth experiences acceleration towards the surface and needs to be supported by the...
February 2019
The challenge of procreation for future off-world settlers
... reader will notice a problem. If the track is 1 km in radius the circumference will be 6.28 km and, as the train speeds up, the centrifugal force acting laterally will cause the train to lean to the outside of the track. So, even if it was designed...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... I will not go into. The blood samples go in the centrifuge before being placed in a freezer. We have three freezers at ...put into a little portable container called Kubik (the ESA incubator-centrifuge) which stores them for a set amount of time at a...
