There are videos with renderings of SpaceX Starships connected into larger space stations with simulated gravity.
This will be more and more important as NASA has announced they are working with SpaceX to make space stations using SpaceX Starships.
I believe that the SpaceX Starship with seven $250,000 engines and steel construction can come down to a cost of $10 million to 20 million each.
The engines could be designed for detachment and some Starships could retain engines and fuel to act as lifeboats.
Gateway Foundation imagined and rendered much large space stations. Those large station designs involved a lot of construction.
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Any rendering that shows fins is silly. A lot of work is going into the design of the lunar landing model so that orientation of the inside would seem to be the logical way to go which means they spin connected top to top. I think it’s more likely a space station built on starships would be zero g.
The notion of connecting two rockets together would be overkill, and would not be stable. You need the entire station needs to be a sufficient large cylinder, or a toroid, spinning around a ridged center of gravity. Once spinning, angular momentum will keep it spinning, the result is artificial gravity on the inner surfaces of the cylinder / toroid.
“Once spinning, angular momentum will keep it spinning, the result is artificial gravity on the inner surfaces of the cylinder / toroid.”
Tether vehicles at the nose with a sufficiently long tether, spin it up, same thing. Although “gravity” will lessen as you go up to higher floors in the vehicle.
Or for a version that won’t be landing again, easiest might be to just build interiors “upside down” and then jattach to wherever it is that they clamp/attach to hold starship down for static fire tests…it could certainly handle the load, even at 1g. Command space might need to have up and down configurations for takeoff, unless these are sent up unmanned.
Have to be of materials that don’t stink up over time as current ISS does.
Connect them nose to nose. I mean all the seats are oriented for liftoff. Google an an image of “3 radial module space station”. Also no need for a full g.
I was going to write that. God, they’ve got the things oriented in the worst possible orientation for structural purposes! Didn’t anybody run those renderings past an engineer?
Lotsa cool stuff. I don’t quite get how you move from transport into the rotating parts of these stations tho.
You dock with the center, then wearing a space suit, you climb down the truss, being sure to use safety lines so you don’t become an orbital hazard. Or you jump into the airlock from a space ship passing by at matching circumferential speed.
Well, probably something more boring, like an elevator.