The main colony access area. With some nice coverings over the airlock hatches. Think i'll call it area 451. ;-)
So any airlock on a Mars habitat (whether for crew or entire vehicles) will include two non-pressure-changing chambers, one inside at habitat pressure, one outside at Mars pressure. (As shown in one of my crude sketches.)I think the same will be true even of suit-locks and vehicle docking-ports. They will be inside closable, but unpressurised, "sheds" attached to the airlock. This helps with dust exclusion, reduces sun damage, and should reduce thermal cycling a little.
Quote from: Nomadd on 01/20/2017 05:08 am Few people seem to have any difficulty in Cusco after a couple of days at 9.5 psi.Ugh, unless you're me in 1987 after too many pisco sours in Lima the night before. Arriving in 10,000 foot Cusco was, er, unpleasant. Though I will say just a day later found me mountain biking to Machu Picchu, so it is amazing how the human body recovers.
Few people seem to have any difficulty in Cusco after a couple of days at 9.5 psi.
The BFS is expected to be usable for 12 flights to Mars. Leave it at Mars after the 12th flight and use it's tanks as storage tanks for propellants made on Mars. Perhaps better than sending it back to Earth for recycling.
Regarding the propellant plant, I believe it will be incorporated in the first unmanned IST that lands on Mars.No need to extract and set up the "factory": it comes pre-installed in its own housing, the IST, which already has the necessary oxygen and methane tanks to store the production of fuel.
Quote from: Paul451 on 01/19/2017 03:38 pmSo any airlock on a Mars habitat (whether for crew or entire vehicles) will include two non-pressure-changing chambers, one inside at habitat pressure, one outside at Mars pressure. I think the same will be true even of suit-locks and vehicle docking-ports. They will be inside closable, but unpressurised, "sheds" attached to the airlock.I would say the outer shed should just have an unlocked door that can be quickly opened from either side, in case of emergencies.
So any airlock on a Mars habitat (whether for crew or entire vehicles) will include two non-pressure-changing chambers, one inside at habitat pressure, one outside at Mars pressure. I think the same will be true even of suit-locks and vehicle docking-ports. They will be inside closable, but unpressurised, "sheds" attached to the airlock.
Not sure if this is any clearer...Top down view.Green walls are unpressurised. Heavy black walls are pressurise-containing main walls. Blue segments are pressurisable airlock and bulkhead doors. Vehicles are black/yellow. Spacesuits are black/white.
Quote from: Paul451 on 01/21/2017 02:55 pmNot sure if this is any clearer...Top down view.Green walls are unpressurised. Heavy black walls are pressurise-containing main walls. Blue segments are pressurisable airlock and bulkhead doors. Vehicles are black/yellow. Spacesuits are black/white.With the vehicle and pedestrian airlocks arranged like that, someone's going to get run over... I'd swap the vehicle docking ports and suit locks to separate foot and wheeled paths.
With the vehicle and pedestrian airlocks arranged like that, someone's going to get run over... I'd swap the vehicle docking ports and suit locks to separate foot and wheeled paths.
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Quote from: lamontagne on 01/22/2017 12:45 pmComments welcome!Beautiful imagery and you obviously put a lot of work into it.Would you care to share the schedule and budget necessary to produce such a facility? How much revenue those 10,000 people will have to produce annually to pay off its construction costs and maintain it? You know, the really important stuff.
I think it needs a lush some on top of the crater overlooking the crater below and giving a view of the land surrounding.
Lush Dome! Jungles take a lot of bandwidth.
Quote from: lamontagne on 01/22/2017 08:41 pmLush Dome! Jungles take a lot of bandwidth.How about regular old agriculture? You had sporting and recreation fields, but I don't think you had any food production.In soil, you probably need 3-5 square kilometres to feed 10,000 people. Hydroponics, you can reduce that to 1-2 square kilometres. With aeroponics, you can maybe drop that by another half. However, that's will a calorie-focused, ultra-simply diet. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, a few other high density vegetables. If you want animal protein, you'll need more food production (to feed the animals, 10:1 conversion), but not much space if you're willing to copy intensive practices. If you want variety in your diet, then you need low calorie foods, like salad vegetables. That will blow out your land requirements again.IMO, the majority the pressurized volume of any colony will be food production. Just as the majority of a country (by land area) is farming.
Quote from: Robotbeat on 01/22/2017 08:38 pmI think it needs a lush some on top of the crater overlooking the crater below and giving a view of the land surrounding.Lush Dome! Jungles take a lot of bandwidth. The big oval domes are pretty lush, I expect. I am working on a design for crater wall individual homes, for people who do not want to live with the plebs.Do you want a waterfall in your jungle dome?