Ships from Literature
The spaceship 'Galileo' gets its shuttle ready to explore a habitable moon of a gas giant of a distant star.
The 'Galileo' is featured in
Allen Steele's novel Spindrift. This is a simplified model of the websites cover shot, using a standard DeltaGlider as shuttle and Donatelo's Upsilon Andromedae as star system.
The EASS Galileo is using its fusion drive just above the atmosphere of a gas giant, slowing down its speed to rendevous with a potentially habitable moon. The large ring is not a centrifuge, but part of the futuristic 'diametric drive' which allowed the Galileo to travel with a significant fraction of the speed of light between solar systems.
The EASS Galileo low above Phobos. The ship's shadow is visible on the ground below.