I think they are designed as escape pods and placed there during construction.
The docking is done at the centre ring, so zero g.
The size is probably to small for 1g on the outer ring as the differential G between you head and feet would be too large, so this is likely moon or mars G (1/6 or 1/3).
Still, a graphic mock up that looks nice does not mean this will ever actually be made.
Zero chance they get anything meaningful done on this in the next 3 years.
And if they did I’m confident they would actually commit all sorts of crimes against humanity up there because it’s international space. They’d be jettisoning workers instead of paying workman’s comp for injuries or something
Hey, y’all remember that sub? I have to imagine if they manage to build a space station and launch it within that timeframe it’ll have something similar happen to it.
So let’s just make sure it’s full of rich people and politicans, yeah?
Isn’t the company behind this just a PO Box and a guy making Blender videos in his home office?
It’s Orbital Construction or something like that. There big claim to fame was a rig that loosely stuck together some metal trusses in a parking lot. Somehow they plan to turn this into an orbital assembly machine that takes metal rods and makes trusses in space, for some reason. If you’re already sending up metal rods, you could just send up the frames.
How they turn some metal girders into space habitats, I have no idea.
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