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Space Station11/1/2019
The Ballinger and Pelson Space Station is the first of its kind: an economically advantageous space investment and travel destination. It offers civilians the opportunity to travel to space and have a resort-like experience, and offers private sector business the chance to tap into this market. Interest in space by the masses has been rekindled by the spectacle of private sector space companies like SpaceX or Blue Origin. Space travel has also become the cheapest it has ever been. As a result of both of these factors, there is now an opportunity to send a large amount of people to space for a relatively low cost. Our space station will serve as the only destination in space, taking in the large flow of people and supplying businesses with them. We will not be like other stations and pursue scientific innovation due to the sheer number of stations dedicated to that and the lack of demand for it.
The space station will orbit at 300 miles (482,803 meters) above the Earth. This is about 80 miles above the international space station (ISS). We are able to put it higher because we do not have to worry about the capabilities and fuel levels of refueling/resupplying missions (the ISS had to consider the Progress and Soyuz capabilities as well as the space shuttle capabilities). We are also still below the Van Allen belts (311 miles or 500,000 meters), so we do not have to worry about increased radiation. The space station will have a tangential speed of 7,272.54 meters per second, and an angular speed of 3.078 meters per second. The space station will be 1,498.1 meters by 100 meters and will use 2,996,200 kilograms of materials.
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