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Hull Structures | BuildTheEnterprise
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Why the Enterprise Form? Mission #1: Space Station and Space Port. Mission #2: First Moon Landing. Mission #3: First Mars Landing. Mission #4: Venus Visit. Mission #5: Asteroid Diversion. Mission #6: Europa Hydrobots. Mission #7: Second Moon Landing. Mission #8: Second Mars Landing. Mars and Moon Bases. Compare to Star Trek. The Enterprise has four hulls: the saucer hull, the main engine hull, and the two aux engine hulls as shown above. The net mass of these combined structures is 60 million pounds as s...
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Shielding | BuildTheEnterprise
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Why the Enterprise Form? Mission #1: Space Station and Space Port. Mission #2: First Moon Landing. Mission #3: First Mars Landing. Mission #4: Venus Visit. Mission #5: Asteroid Diversion. Mission #6: Europa Hydrobots. Mission #7: Second Moon Landing. Mission #8: Second Mars Landing. Mars and Moon Bases. Compare to Star Trek. Image credit – Ruth Bamford and John Bradford. The Gen1 Enterprise, via various technologies, will have extensive shielding against galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), radiation from the su...
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100 Year Roadmap | BuildTheEnterprise
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Why the Enterprise Form? Mission #1: Space Station and Space Port. Mission #2: First Moon Landing. Mission #3: First Mars Landing. Mission #4: Venus Visit. Mission #5: Asteroid Diversion. Mission #6: Europa Hydrobots. Mission #7: Second Moon Landing. Mission #8: Second Mars Landing. Mars and Moon Bases. Compare to Star Trek.
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Nuclear Power System | BuildTheEnterprise
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Why the Enterprise Form? Mission #1: Space Station and Space Port. Mission #2: First Moon Landing. Mission #3: First Mars Landing. Mission #4: Venus Visit. Mission #5: Asteroid Diversion. Mission #6: Europa Hydrobots. Mission #7: Second Moon Landing. Mission #8: Second Mars Landing. Mars and Moon Bases. Compare to Star Trek. A 15GWe main subsystem located in the main engine hull in front of the main engine. A 500MWe auxiliary #1 subsystem located in aux engine hull #1 in front of aux engine #1. But the e...
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Exterior Ship Esthetics | BuildTheEnterprise
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Why the Enterprise Form? Mission #1: Space Station and Space Port. Mission #2: First Moon Landing. Mission #3: First Mars Landing. Mission #4: Venus Visit. Mission #5: Asteroid Diversion. Mission #6: Europa Hydrobots. Mission #7: Second Moon Landing. Mission #8: Second Mars Landing. Mars and Moon Bases. Compare to Star Trek. As an additional reminder of why to work an artistic angle into the design of the Enterprise, recall that the underlying idea for the exterior of the Gen1 USS Enterprise was ushered ...
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Our Space Problem | BuildTheEnterprise
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Why the Enterprise Form? Mission #1: Space Station and Space Port. Mission #2: First Moon Landing. Mission #3: First Mars Landing. Mission #4: Venus Visit. Mission #5: Asteroid Diversion. Mission #6: Europa Hydrobots. Mission #7: Second Moon Landing. Mission #8: Second Mars Landing. Mars and Moon Bases. Compare to Star Trek. Space, the final frontier. As the second decade of the 21. Century rolls along – isn’t it time to expect something much grander for our human endeavors into space?
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Ship Specs | BuildTheEnterprise
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Why the Enterprise Form? Mission #1: Space Station and Space Port. Mission #2: First Moon Landing. Mission #3: First Mars Landing. Mission #4: Venus Visit. Mission #5: Asteroid Diversion. Mission #6: Europa Hydrobots. Mission #7: Second Moon Landing. Mission #8: Second Mars Landing. Mars and Moon Bases. Compare to Star Trek.
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Impulse Engines | BuildTheEnterprise
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Why the Enterprise Form? Mission #1: Space Station and Space Port. Mission #2: First Moon Landing. Mission #3: First Mars Landing. Mission #4: Venus Visit. Mission #5: Asteroid Diversion. Mission #6: Europa Hydrobots. Mission #7: Second Moon Landing. Mission #8: Second Mars Landing. Mars and Moon Bases. Compare to Star Trek. Image credit – James Small of Small Art Works.
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Engines | BuildTheEnterprise
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Why the Enterprise Form? Mission #1: Space Station and Space Port. Mission #2: First Moon Landing. Mission #3: First Mars Landing. Mission #4: Venus Visit. Mission #5: Asteroid Diversion. Mission #6: Europa Hydrobots. Mission #7: Second Moon Landing. Mission #8: Second Mars Landing. Mars and Moon Bases. Compare to Star Trek. These three engines will all be ion propulsion type engines, sometimes also known as ion thrusters. Image Credit – NASA. Ion propulsion engines are electrically powered and are thus ...
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Saucer Hull | BuildTheEnterprise
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Why the Enterprise Form? Mission #1: Space Station and Space Port. Mission #2: First Moon Landing. Mission #3: First Mars Landing. Mission #4: Venus Visit. Mission #5: Asteroid Diversion. Mission #6: Europa Hydrobots. Mission #7: Second Moon Landing. Mission #8: Second Mars Landing. Mars and Moon Bases. Compare to Star Trek. The interior sections of the saucer hull serve many diverse functions and contain many diverse items. Some examples are:. Three motorized hinged doors and three hangars for housing a...
