Questions tagged [space-constructs]
For questions regarding artificial structures that exist in space.
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How to Construct a Stellar Instar
In real science, an "instar" is simply a developmental stage between molts in arthropods. But in fictional science, it is an artificially constructed structure that is designed to function ...
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Could a 200m diameter asteroid be put into a graveyard orbit and not be noticed by people on the ground?
So, there’s a secret space station—code named Anvil—that is run by a secret military organization that was formed to provide a rapid response team against national/global threats. They launched a ...
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Calculating Living Area on a Concentric Shellworld
I'm not sure if I should be asking this here on on the Maths Stack Exchange, because this is a sort of mathematics problem but here goes:
A civilization lives on multiple concentric shellworlds, each ...
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Can an Alcubierre drive be built by starlifting?
I am setting up a very futuristic world for a sci-fi story, where having FTL tech would be very practical. For a bit of context, here is what I am imagining:
It is a type 3.2 - 3.3 civilisation, where ...
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Moving people and goods between spinning and non-spinning parts of a space station [closed]
I'm thinking of three possibilities - all of which have the user experience of elevators and don't require space suits.
involves a programmed pod that moves a short distance in space between docking ...
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Advantages of locations in the solar system for a space station [closed]
In my story, a hostile alien force has arrived in our solar system and parked a station to keep us in line. They've mined the near-sun planets to build a Dyson Swarm, something they do fairly ...
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How to increase the structural integrity of comets (for the purpose of moving them)?
Suppose there is a comet of radius 500m made of mostly ice, with the rest being rock, dust, and other frozen gases. The comet is being hollowed out in order to use the water as reaction mass (giving ...
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Expanding a modular space-station for 100 years
The Mir, ISS, Tiangong, Skylab, the numerous Salyut-missions...Space-stations are one of the most impressive and interesting feats of modern engineering, which in my opinion, makes it even more tragic ...
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Possibility of solar powered space stations around a red dwarf
I have an earth-like world orbiting an M7 red dwarf on the outer edge of the habitable zone(0.0443AU). Since red dwarfs emit more infrared light than visible light, solar panels would probably not be ...
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Motivations for creating "brainstar" bioplanets [closed]
I define a "bioplanet" as any single organism that completely covers the surface of a planet. In my scenario, humans pass Kardashev Type I status and build a Matrioshka brain around the core ...
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Artificially-created diamond 'windows' for spacecraft
In the past I've entertained the notion of space stations and spaceships having window panes or transparent viewing surfaces made from laboratory-created diamonds, but a recent answer to a different ...
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How to make a Stanford torus start rotating?
The notion of using the so called Stanford torus to generate artificial gravity is well known, but once you build the mega-structure how do you make it start rotating? Do you rotate somehow from the ...
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Zero energy transfer between Earth and Moon with space elevators
I'm asking this out of curiosity, mostly as a response to Space elevator from Earth to Moon with multiple temporary anchors and some of the comments and answers there.
Suppose you're able to build ...
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Stopping Milkdromeda, for Aesthetic Reasons
Basically, there is a human civilization controlling the milky-way and an alien civilization controlling Andromeda. They are communicating and have decided, for some reason, that, though the ...
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Practicality of building a space station in the tail of a comet
In my novel, I want to feature a large (>5km) centrifuge space station that was built on/into a comet, and is in the comet’s tail whenever it passes close to the sun. It is home to many criminal ...
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