SpaceX Starship

Stainless steel starship

estepona

Rotating space station

Small orbital transfer vehicle with rotational gravity capability

Mars exploration

Mars exploration. The great spacesuit is by Max Grueter, an amazing artist working with Sketchup.

Plumber’s guide to starships -part VI- Steam pipes and heat pipes

http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/a-plumbers-guide-to-starships-part-vi-steam-pipes-and-heat-pipes/

Small solar Orbital transfer vehicle

A much smaller OTV, moving only one container at a time, but with, overall, the same capabilities as the large one.  About 30 would be required to equal one of the larger ones.

Large solar powered orbital transfer vehicle

A very large solar powered orbital transfer vehicle.  Those little tanks in the close up are 15 ton modules flown up by the Skylon space plane.  This ship takes a number of containers and moves them from lower Earth orbit to a space station at the moon L2 Lagrangian point.

Mars colonial transporter

My present interpretation of what the SpaceX Mars colonial transporter might be like.

Space station evolution

A bit of ambition can be a good thing….

Existential risk

An attempt to illustrate Existential risk and our favorite mitigation solution.  For a text by a colleague in Icarus Interstellar.

A plumber’s guide to starships, part 3- Materials

A starship radiator, high temperature, high radiation environments.

http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/a-plumbers-guide-to-starships-part-3-thermal-properties-of-materials-2/