 Exterior view of a Stanford torus. Bottom center is the non-rotating primary solar mirror, which reflects sunlight onto the angled ring of secondary mirrors around the hub. Painting by Donald E. Davis.
 External view of a Stanford torus with some of the radiation-shielding "chevron" mirrors removed to show interior space.
 Interior of a Stanford torus, painted by Donald E. Davis The Stanford torus is a proposed design for a space habitat capable of housing approximately 10,000 permanent residents. It consists of a torus or donut-shaped ring that is one statute mile (1.6 km) in diameter and rotates once per minute to provide artificial gravity on the inside of the outer ring via centrifugal force. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1881x1469, 568 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Stanford torus ...
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Artists conception of a space habitat called the Stanford torus, by Don Davis Space colonization (also called space settlement, space humanization, space habitation, etc. ...
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Sunlight would be provided to the interior of the torus by a system of mirrors. The ring would be connected to a hub via a number of "spokes", which would serve as conduits for people and materials travelling to and from the hub. Since the hub would be at the rotational axis of the station, it would experience the least artificial gravity and would be the easiest location for spacecraft to dock. Zero-gravity industry could be performed in a non-rotating module attached to the hub's axis. A mirror, reflecting a vase. ...
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The interior space of the torus itself would be used as living space, and would be large enough that a "natural" environment could be simulated; the torus would appear similar to a long, narrow, straight glacial valley whose ends curved upward and eventually met overhead to form a complete circle. The population density would be similar to a dense suburb, with part of the ring dedicated to agriculture and part to housing. Fljótsdalur in East Iceland, a rather flat valley In geology, a valley is a depression with predominant extent in one direction. ...
The Stanford Torus was proposed during the 1975 NASA Summer Study, conducted at Stanford University, with the purpose of speculating on designs for future space colonies. (Gerard O'Neill later proposed his Island One or Bernal sphere as an alternative to the torus.) "Stanford torus" refers only to this particular version of the design, as the concept of a ring-shaped rotating space station was previously proposed by Wernher von Braun in 1952. Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ...
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Stanford tori in fiction
- In Arthur C. Clarke's and Stanley Kubrick's 1968 book/movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, there is a prefiguration of a Stanford torus, the gigantic Space Station V, orbiting Earth and co-owned by the United States of America and the Soviet Union.
- In the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, most of the many space colonies in Earth orbit are based on the Stanford torus.
- Hideo Kojima's Playstation 2 video game Zone of the Enders is set aboard a Stanford
torus-type space station orbiting Jupiter called Antillia Colony. - Bungie's video game series Halo involves orbiting space-station rings similar to the Stanford torus model.
- In the sci fi TV series Babylon 5, The human race use space stations based on the Stanford Torus around Earth and most of the worlds that Earth has colonized.
- The video game Startopia is set aboard a series of Stanford tori.
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