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An aerospace hardware derelict item is salvaged in space, modified, and reused to provide manned facilities in orbit. The hardware packages added onto the salvaged discarded item enhances its value, and incorporates at least the subsystems required to effectively reuse portions of previously discard

An aerospace hardware derelict item is salvaged in space, modified, and reused to provide manned facilities in orbit. The hardware packages added onto the salvaged discarded item enhances its value, and incorporates at least the subsystems required to effectively reuse portions of previously discarded launch vehicle components, and other derelict objects in space. The hardware, and technique used reduces the cost of launching comparable hardware to orbit, because of the reuse, and provides a human habitation in orbit. The salvaged items include the external tank of the space shuttle, other derelict orbital hardware, the add-on cargo pod in two forms, and the ability to convert the derelict into a cost effective reusable item. The salvaged hardware is initially capable of contributing mass, length, interior volume, strongback, rotational stability mass, interior pressurized volumes, artificial gravity, and stability with the addition of simple subsystems for salvage, and interior development packages.

대표청구항 ▼

[What is claimed is:] [1.]salvaging launch hardware;creating a rigid structure from salvaged launch hardware, the salvaged launch hardware occupying most of the volume of the rigid structure; androtating the rigid structure, thereby providing centrifugal gravity in space, wherein the creating of the

[What is claimed is:] [1.]salvaging launch hardware;creating a rigid structure from salvaged launch hardware, the salvaged launch hardware occupying most of the volume of the rigid structure; androtating the rigid structure, thereby providing centrifugal gravity in space, wherein the creating of the rigid structure includes positioning two or more pressurized volumes parallel to a long axis of the rigid structure and at different distances from a rotation point of the rigid structure, such that gravity levels within the pressurized volumes differ from one another.