Pressuvessels for Space Habs

Am 26.06.2018 um 15:27 schrieb Joe Strout joe@... [spacesettlers]:
> baur baur baur@... [spacesettlers] wrote:
>
> > this adds of course the joys of either having to dock on a rotating body
> > (so the station will have only two docking ports) or having to build a
> > really large dual spin structure (i can hear the howls of the structural
> > engineers, as well as those of the bearing specialists and the rotating
> > seal gurus)
>
> I don't think it'll be that bad. We have rotating seals on Earth (for
> example in hydraulic machines) that hold a much greater pressure
> differential than 1 ATM.

yes - but these seals do not tend to be lossfree

servus

markus

> Obviously it'd be nice to have some real-world experience doing this in
> space... add this to the list of things NASA should have been doing for
> the last 50 years. :)
>
> Best,
> - Joe

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