Project Mirai (Hatsunese Space Station)

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Amai Exposed Facility and Remote Manipulator System (I'm panning the camera in d3d9)

Stowed position

I didn't add a Small Fine Arm to the EF but if I do, it won't be functional because I'm trying to keep this simple.

 

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Central truss segment

(notice the holes for the Control Moment Gyroscopes?)

 

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From right to left: S0 truss, P1/S1 truss, P2/S2 truss

 

[Kyle]

Amai Exposed Facility and Remote Manipulator System (I'm panning the camera in d3d9)

Stowed position

I didn't add a Small Fine Arm to the EF but if I do, it won't be functional because I'm trying to keep this simple.

Looks a little familiar (in a good way) :thumbup:

 

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[Loru]

That's really nice and clean looking space station.

 

[K_Jameson]

Fantastic design.
Seems a very interesting place to visit.

 

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Crew rotation

(disclaimer: this image and the last one are post-processed)

Also, here's Miku on a truss.

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What's next?

 

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I emailed JAXA a while ago, curious about what other names were proposed for the JEM (Kibo) and the HTV. I got this in response:

I need a name for the Hatsunese version of the HTV (UTV - Unmanned Transfer Vehicle).

Name proposals are:
"Shubashikou" (the European/African white stork, but this wouldn't be as culturally recognizable in Japan/Hatsunia as much as the oriental stork "Kounotori")
"Juusukan" (literally "juice can," as in vegetable juice, representing the mission to transport vital supplies)
"Nagisa" (recommended by Nikogori via PM, means "sea shore" as a metaphor for low Earth orbit. He also showed me this short music video with Miku.)
"Hikyaku" (couriers on foot, literally meaning "flying legs") could be a good name.

 

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So, what do you think about those names? I'm thinking of either "Juusukan" or "Hikyaku."

 

[orbitingpluto]

I like Juusukan, though it's seems like a informal name to me. If it fits well enough, Juusukan might work as as a nickname, or (inventing some back story) HASDA neglected to name the UTV, allowing the nickname to become the defacto name.

Hikyaku would be my second choice. I think Nagisa has promise as a name for something like a docking node or module, since the shore is the place where journeys start or end at, but for for that reason I don't think it suits a spacecraft.

 

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Kounotori was the official "nickname" for HTV. But I like the "(vegetable) juice can" theme. Especially when you have "(Po pi po) Mirai Yasai."

Vegetable juice is actually associated with the Hatsunese space program much like how Tang was with the early American space program.

(If I had a space station, there would be a module/room filled with green onions)

Azayaka (vivid) will be just that.

Each negi has 21 polygons. The rest of the module (with interior) has 2747 (which may change).

(192 green onions)
4032 + 2747 = 6779

(384 green onions)
8064 + 2747 = 10811

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I think 288 green onions (6048 + 2747 = 8795) is a good compromise.

 

[ISProgram]

I wonder who's gonna eat all that...? :lol:

 

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The racks are edited versions of this image of an EXPRESS rack. I used the "perspective" tool in GIMP to make sure that the edges were straight.

(Just another reminder that the default version of Wings3D does not include boolean operations - as in, you can't fuse together or cut out pieces from a mesh. ManifoldLab can do that. However, you have to rename the object within Wings3D after the operation is done, otherwise it crashes when trying to UV map [because the name is too long].)

 

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I wonder who's gonna eat all that...? :lol:

As it turns out, it's only now that the ISS crew members are eating food that they've grown in orbit. Coincidentally as I'm working on Mirai's negi farm.

 

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Starting tomorrow, I won't be able to work on this for a week because my PC will be shipped back to my university for my second year.

 

[K_Jameson]

How many launches are planned to assemble the entire station?
As far as I can view, some modules have autonomous maneuvre capability, some not. You have planned some sort of logistic vehicle / space tug for the in-space assembly?

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Oh, and will be useful to grossly know the total pressurized volume of the station. I know I already asked this question...

 

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Maybe 13 launches, one for each module (core + airlock + 6 append modules + 5 truss segments). Also, a few more to bring up the large robotic arm (MRMS) and external experiments for the Amai exposed facility. edit: and one more for the cupola, too.

Yes, there will be a HTV-inspired space tug.

The pressurized volume will be calculated once I get my PC again. I'm guessing that only the empty space between the racks will count?

 

[K_Jameson]

The pressurized volume will be calculated once I get my PC again.

OK, eight main pressurized modules... we assume from 70 to 110 cubic metres at module... I think around 750 or 800 cubic metres... grossly estimated.

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I have another question.
Your Kibo-style experiment pallet is fully functional or only eye-candy? I mean... how to simulate the installation of the experiments into the pallet with Sc3? And your canadarm was made by you from scratch?
I ask this because I would like to make something similar, as I wrote.