Company - Gateway Spaceport
Product/Service - VERA Station
- Classification
- Space Stations & Habitats
- Category
- Commercial Space Station
- Status
- Concept
- First launch
- Not announced
Sargon Systems
Sargon Systems are a family of new construction machines that can collectively build an entire space station like VERA in half a year. Later as we learn to use these powerful machines we will create whole stations in a month or less.
This is a new kind of construction technology called: Panel Construction. By forming panels of a station that have hull plate and Whipple shielding pre-attached we can quickly build large pressurized volumes in space in an automated fashion. Sargon builds whole stations by welding together panel rings at an astonishing rate. How fast a station comes together depends on how fast Sargon can form a panel ring: At the start, maybe one ring a day, but later we expect to build a new ring every hour!
VERA (Voluminous Environment, Rotating Architecture)
VERA is a Torus-type station. The National Space Society lists torus-type stations as one of the most efficient design options for a space station. With 369,523 cubic meters of pressurized volume, VERA station can easily accommodate 1000 guests and 200 crew with plenty of elbow room.
VERA Station’s Two Torus design will allow for huge cost savings because there are no ERVs needed for evacuation of the Outer Torus. People can simply get on an elevator and move to the Inner Torus should there be a problem in the Outer Torus.
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