P1_2 Gravity in Space
Abstract
With the dream of travelling among the stars and visiting other planets comes a lot of problems. Aside from the obvious problems of the current limit on technology in space travel there are long-term biological effects of zero-g travel on humans. Thus this paper details the feasibility of utilising gravitational effects via rotation to provide an artificial gravity environment during space flight. It is found that to produce a comfortable environment of 1g in a spacecraft would require rotation around an axis of distance ~224m from the centre of the spacecraft which is believed to be an unfeasible solution for current spacecraft for multiple reasons.
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11/18/2011
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Hall, B. E. S., Brown, G., Back, A., & Turner, S. (2011). P1_2 Gravity in Space. Physics Special Topics, 10(1). Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/pst/article/view/1987
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