The Low Earth Orbit Business Center
Abstract
The Low Earth Orbit Business Center (LEOBC) is a manufacturing/research facility, similar to a suburban commercial center, conceived to exploit the unique environment of Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The LEOBC is a two-floor torus connected to a large hub by four spokes. Up to 82 lease units and comfortable residential support for up to 400 personnel are provided in the torus. At the hub, five floors contain lease space at near zero-g, life support systems, the control center and supply storage. The design is modularized to fly on the Space Transportation System, and could be operational in the 1990's. The LEOBC can be the first step in making LEO the industrial locale it has the potential of becoming.
- Publication:
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Pub Date:
- February 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981lspt.conf.....B
- Keywords:
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- Orbital Workshops;
- Space Industrialization;
- Space Manufacturing;
- Spacecraft Design;
- Artificial Gravity;
- Atmospheric Pressure;
- Space Commercialization;
- Space Transportation System;
- Spacecraft Cabin Atmospheres;
- Spokes;
- Toroids;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles