Created: 2023-08-17
Updated: 2024-03-02
Company - Living Disk Company
Product/Service
- Classification
- Surface Habitats & Structures
- Category
- Surface Habitats
Commercial Lander
- Status
- Concept
- First launch
- Not announced
Self-sustaining spacecraft enabling business investments for LEO, Moon, Asteroids, or Mars.
The concept can be used as orbital/surface habitat capable to land by its own, offers artificial gravity in space, and has a mass to be launched with current launch vehicles. Furthermore, it includes a compact and light-weight hydroponic solution in combination with a power-generating biomass fermentation unit.
The Living-Disk Spaceship Habitat (LSH):
- Spaceship and surface habitat launchable in one piece
- Bioregenerative life support system BLSS
- Traditional and liquid-based radiation shielding
- Artificial gravity
All in One: Transfer - Landing - Stay - Return.
Two coupled LSH enable a crew of four:
- Landing on Mars and Moon
- Return launch from Moon surface
- Free-return-trajectory trips to Mars
- RTG-based thermal and electrical energy supply