A habitation module with a gravity chamber that rotates to provide an artificial gravity environment. In one embodiment, a portal chamber is installed adjacent to the gravity chamber and configured to rotate about the same axis. The portal chamber includes a brake mechanism to stop the rotation of the portal chamber, a first access opening for a crew member to pass between an interior of the habitation module and the portal chamber while rotation of the portal chamber is stopped, an engagement mechanism that engages the gravity chamber to rotate the portal chamber about the axis at a speed of the gravity chamber, and a second access opening for the crew member to pass between the portal chamber and the gravity chamber while the portal chamber rotates at the speed of the gravity chamber.
PORTAL CHAMBER FOR ENTERING OR EXITING A GRAVITY CHAMBER OF A HABITATION MODULE WHILE THE GRAVITY CHAMBER ROTATES
2017-07-13
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS |
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