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====== Space Stations ====== | ====== Space Stations ====== | ||
+ | An overview of the types of space stations common in Known Space. Where the space station has an affect on the space port classification (A - E), this is listed. Some of the smaller stations have no noticeable affect. | ||
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- | ==== Space Module ==== | + | ==== Space Module |
Similar to Salyut or Skylab, consists of a simple cylinder or box which acts as the living quarters. Will have a single docking port, solar panels and possible other simple accessories. Such stations are generally impractical for use as anything other than a show of capability, or for simple science experiments. | Similar to Salyut or Skylab, consists of a simple cylinder or box which acts as the living quarters. Will have a single docking port, solar panels and possible other simple accessories. Such stations are generally impractical for use as anything other than a show of capability, or for simple science experiments. | ||
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- | ==== Modular Station ==== | + | ==== Modular Station |
Similar to Mir or the ISS, consists of several modules connected together into a larger structure. Rarely large enough to support more than a dozen people, can be used for science experiments or as a monitoring station. | Similar to Mir or the ISS, consists of several modules connected together into a larger structure. Rarely large enough to support more than a dozen people, can be used for science experiments or as a monitoring station. | ||
In some cases, it may be extended to act as a relay station, being able to store fuel and/or food supplies for ships to refuel before heading out of orbit. | In some cases, it may be extended to act as a relay station, being able to store fuel and/or food supplies for ships to refuel before heading out of orbit. | ||
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+ | ==== Orbital Gateway (C) ==== | ||
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+ | Similar in style to a //Modular Station//, though much larger. Such stations are built when a planet has regular manned travel from surface to beyond orbit. A Gateway station is an orbital relay point where crew can be transferred between surface to orbit vessels and orbit to interplanetary vessels. | ||
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+ | An //Orbital Gateway// generally comfortably supports several dozen people at a time, and can dock several vessels at once. | ||
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+ | ==== Space Wheel (-) ==== | ||
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+ | Larger than an //Orbital Gateway//, such stations are spun to induce artificial gravity. This requires them to be quite large, with the bulk of the volume in the wheel itself. The wheel is connected to a central hub which does not spin, in order to allow ships to dock. | ||
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+ | Space Wheels are actual civilian habitats, where people can properly live rather than just work. They are often taken as a sign that a civilisation is beginning the move to permanent space habitation. |
traveller/space_stations.txt · Last modified: 2014/01/12 21:40 by sam