The 1st generation ship Enterprise will be able to reach the moon within three days and Mars within 90 days, move from planet to planet and drop off robotic spacecraft of all types anywhere - ground vehicles, dedicated drones and of course satellites.
By Nancy Atkinson
In the TV series Interstellar Science, the first spacecraft of the Enterprise type was built in 2245. However, recently an engineer proposed - and he detailed this in great detail - to build a full-scale, ion-powered version of the Enterprise that would maintain a gravity of 1G - the same as that on Earth's surface. According to him, with the current technology, the construction will take about 20 years.
"We have the technological possibility to build the first generation of the spaceship known as the USS Enterprise and therefore we must do it" writes the creator of the website Build The Enterprise hiding behind the name BTE - Dan.
The 1st generation ship Enterprise will be able to reach the moon within three days and Mars within 90 days, move from planet to planet and drop off robotic spacecraft of all types anywhere - ground vehicles, dedicated drones and of course satellites.
The organization has meanwhile completed the conceptual design, ship specifications, funding schedule and almost every other detail imaginable. The website was launched this week and covers almost every aspect of the project.
The current Enterprise will be built entirely in space, it will have a rotating part in which the earth's gravity will be imitated, a part that will look like a saucer, and it will be the same size and shape as the Star Trek Enterprise.
"Ultimately, the configuration of the ship will be functional" says Dan, although his design moves further than the performance in today's technology. This version of the Enterprise will be three things in one ship - a spaceship, a space station and a space terminal. A thousand people will be able to live on board at the same time, either as crew members or as adventurous visitors.
Although the ship will not move at speeds higher than light (warp or space jump), the ion engine, which will be powered by a 1.5 gigawatt nuclear reactor, will allow it to move at constant acceleration so that it can reach interesting places in the solar system. Three additional reactors will produce all the electricity required to operate the ship.
The diameter of the 'plate' area will be 536 meters, with a magnetically levitating gravity wheel creating a gravitational force of one G.
Enterprise's first mission will be to serve as a space station and space port and then go on missions to the moon, Mars, Venus, a selection of asteroids and maybe even Europa - the mysterious moon of Jupiter, where the ship's laser will be used not for war purposes but to penetrate through the ice cover of the righteous moon and allow survey the ocean below.
Of course, like all spacecraft today, the big missing piece in ambitious efforts will be getting congressional approval to provide NASA with the funding for the 20-year project. But BTE Dan has already thought about all the details and according to him it is a fraction of a percent required to raise taxes, which will not have much effect even in a difficult economic period like today. The only limitation is the imagination, according to him.
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And the Death Star doesn't have a scientist to build it?
Avi,
You know he has now submitted a petition to the White House:
http://wh.gov/QOb7
It was posted before, I just brought it up due to the interest in the Star Trek series. In the evening I will download it from the first page.
The article was published before, wasn't it?
If it is driven with a constant acceleration of 1g, why the dish? It will create variable acceleration of zero to 2g every turn. No human could live there for long.
It is also possible to be pessimistic and predict that a spaceship of this size will be a tool for military superiority for the first country that manages to build it with the ability to strike anywhere on Earth without interference. But I hope that if such a project comes to fruition it will actually be a symbol of global cooperation. Like the International Space Station.
sparrow
It is difficult to point to any development, especially in advance, that will not be used in the future as part of a destructive tool.
I am very glad that my father published the article. These are the things that inspire and drive technology and scientific knowledge forward.
I'm almost certain that if they had published an article about the Wright brothers or the television key on what was at the time equivalent to a website, then there would also be talkbacks along the lines of "What is this delusional thing", "Why are you publishing this nonsense in this serious newspaper..." etc.
By the way, there is something else that accelerates technological development like crazy in just a few years. It's called a "world war".
(It seems to me that all kinds of eccentrics who push advanced and inspiring ideas are better)
20 years? How long has the International Space Station been under construction? 10? 15? And it's all a piece of tin that doesn't move anywhere
A bit delusional but come on, let's try, it can't hurt and those who don't dare don't win.
Nonsense
The whole point of the Enterprise is the warp drive that allows you to reach the other side of the galaxy in minus 10 minutes
The ion engines are just to align in the geocentric orbit
Without Warp Drive this is going to be a boring movie for everyone involved
And jobs copied the ipad from TNG.
JLP read daily reports in pads.
the list goes on and on…
wait for the holodeck.
Skeptic - obviously it will be in parts, there is no other option. The problem is that this is an amount of material that is hundreds of orders of magnitude larger than the space station, and we have been building the space station for more than 10 years in smooth parts.
Hmmmm….
20 years….
And I thought that only magic and mysticism lovers were prone to errors and hallucinations...
Filled the problem of the material that can be mined in space, but be serious, 20 years?! Maybe 200 years I would say that the site has become a cuckoo with such delusional articles.
I thought the site was more about solid science and not about Abarbanel refugees suffering from severe hallucinations.
glacial.
The overall weight issue is not the main problem. Parts are lifted into near space and assembly is done in space (like building the ISS space station).
I didn't read the article because on the face of it reading it is a waste of time. Huge technological leaps will not be possible. The guy who says he can build a spaceship in 20 years by jumping 100 degrees of development (at once) seems like a charlatan guy to me.
Without being a big expert, it's not just the price - it's the technical possibility - a machine of this size would require how many thousands of tons of material would have to be brought up from the earth? Let's leave aside the fact that the price of a kilo that is lifted to orbit is thousands of dollars, let's say we have the money - I doubt if it is possible to build enough launchers that can make round-trip "turns" to transfer such a quantity of material using the method of lifting baggage to the orbit that we currently have: you will need more than all the engineers in the sphere Haaretz will only work on this, each launch takes months of preparation and after that you have to do an overall for the entire launcher (and replace a very large percentage of it if not all of it)..
And that's without talking about the technological programming - the energy-to-weight ratio of a nuclear reactor is good, but to bring all these tens of tons to a speed that brings you to Mars in a few months? And after that you have to stop the inertia of this monster..
Dan, this is too big a jump, in every parameter (and all this according to his data)
Weight: almost 200 times the largest spacecraft to date (the International Space Station) - from 450 tons to 80,000 tons.
Number of people: from 7 to 1000
Electric power: about 20 times.
And that's before we talked about moving her from the place.
Look at it this way: you can't build a 200-story building when the tallest building you've built so far is 2 stories, there must be intermediate stages, and you learn from each stage.
Exactly, send me Scottish!!
Beam me up, Scotty
It actually sounds interesting to me:
"The organization has meanwhile completed the conceptual design, the ship's specifications, the financing schedule and almost every other detail imaginable."
In light of the accelerated and rapid progress of technology, it seems that within 20 years many things that today still seem impossible will be applicable.
I would like to hear a substantive critique of the plan they presented (someone who read it and saw the technical details and the solutions) and not just "I don't think so".
Can the ship make tea, Earl Grey, hot?
And I claim to be Superman... no criticism of articles? It is more suitable for yellow science.
"Yesterday's science fiction - tomorrow's reality"
The cellular device of the Motorola StarTech was also copied from the same series, there were those who were skeptical about the ability to establish a wireless telephone connection from any point with a device that is smaller than the palm of the hand and copied from the fictional series.
Therefore, if we stop messing with wars and invest more in science and less in religion, then there is a chance.
The debate:
What comes first why the solution of the social problems on earth or the conquest of space.
It seems to me that if we solve the social problems first we can get to space anyway.
On the other hand, it doesn't seem to me that if we reach space the social problems will be solved anyway.
oops
its in the pic
http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/
I don't see the site exactly
There is an amateur site here:
http://www.utopiaplanitia.info/blueprints.html
And I guess this is the original article:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Official_Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation:_Build_the_Enterprise_NCC-1701-D
and a website about propulsion technology:
http://www.itsf.org/brochure/ramscoop.html
bigger than life
Vision creates reality
Money there now to be part of an unearthly reality
And I claim that it can be built in 19 years.
Come on
New article, all the text is the same except for the name of the scientist and the duration.
A child comes home crying, what happened my child asks his father, Danny keeps saying "my father can fly anywhere in the universe", because of this, I am always sad and crying, what will I do father, say the same thing too, his father replied.
I usually don't comment here.
But before future visions, the problem of an elevator to space needs to be solved, solving this problem will jumpstart the entire space industry.
Because in the end everything has a cost and a benefit, and the benefit is not always seen in the near term.
(And no government will invest now, so that the fruits will be reaped in decades)
Therefore, an elevator to space will be able to reduce the cost of all transportation to space, and every small company will be able to try its future in space
Thus breaking new ground without high costs.
With the budget that NASA budgets for, it is possible to do many times more complex, expensive and fascinating missions.
Well, in 20 years he will take us from the nursing home straight to the moon and get stuck there in the ground as a flag for our walking stick... 🙂 😉 🙂 😉
What is this wink?