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Stanford Torus Habitat (vanilla)

Build based a 1975 concept space habitat called the Stanford Torus. Set to reside in the Earth's Lagrange point 5, it was to provide housing and living space for some 10,000 colonists. One of the smaller space habitats proposed during the era.

Key features: Rotating habitat ring providing artificial gravity, with a diameter of 1.11 miles, a revolution per minute would provide comfortable earthlike gravity sensation. A colossal mirror and subsequent secondary mirrors direct natural sunlight into the habitat rings. Notable about this model is that in order to fight gyroscopic precession, a secondary ring rotating counter to the main ring was added to cancel out the effect and additionally changing revolution speeds provides means to effectively tidally lock the station to sun. This secondary ring is devoted to agriculture and enhances the self sufficiency of the station. Massive heat radiators disperse with the excess heat developed by the station and are located below the second torus. Likewise on the other side above torus 1, a non rotating dockyard exists with 0-g amenities for easy cargo handling and manufacturing. These habitats were designed to be pointed parallel to the sun, with radiation from the sun hitting the side of the ring where the shielding is, while mirrors direct the sunlight in.

This is a space engineers scale model with rotating habitat rings. Built out of curiosity, it looks fantastic orbiting a planet giving a fantastic mood for playsessions on the moon for example. It doesn't do much besides look pretty. In fact it's all it does. Wanted to build it simply because I'm enamored by these vintage space station concepts... and the new textures look like archipelagos from a distance!