Color me skeptical. There have recently been a lots and lots of commercial space station proposals. Partly this is because Starship and for some people New Glenn might be ready sometime.<p>The other reason is that NASA is doing a Commercial Space station program (that is underfunded) and a lot of people wont in on that.<p>But I very skeptical of any of these actually making it anywhere close to orbit. The actual investment required to get this build and launched and operated is incredibly large. And the costumer base is questionable.
With about 60 of these and an angled interconnect of about 5.8deg you could build a rotating "Von Neumann ring" of about 200m diameter. Then depending on speed have up to 1g simulated at 3rpm...<p>Just casually pointing out also that their interior designs have floors and doors that are earth like. Along with the company name, I strongly suspect they are already thinking this.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_regular_ring" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_regular_ring</a>
unless they have figured out artificial gravity... none of these pictures or videos make sense.
the only way I know how they can add gravity to these quarters is by spinning them...<p>the "floor" will be the curved sides (or I guess the ends) not the middle of the things?<p>What am I missing here?<p>Edit: oh, they ARE with compromise? no gravity.
which makes the name "Gravitics" more than a bit cheeky.
With any commercial fairly extreme engineering activity, is safety not going to suffer?<p>Not thinking of any particular recent extreme (high) pressure endeavours.