The Building of a Space Station - page 2

System Requirements, Robin Constructing Space Station

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A.1-5.---Introduction, Purpose, Audience, Intended Use, Product Scope

S.1.---Robex shall handle slidable extrusions to build a Space Station Torus.

S.2.---The Space Station Torus shall be initialized by Robex building a Seed Ring.

S.3.---Robex shall have thrustors, reaction wheels, articulated arms to control it's movement along the uninitialized seed ring, and arms and hands for handling parts and tools.

S.4.---The Seed Ring shall be a minimal cross section of slidable extrusions connected in a circle.

S.5.---The Seed Ring diameter shall be TBD.  Probably small e.g. 100m.

Note: The "Stanford Torus" has a Diameter of 2000m for 1G at 1 RPM.  We aren't going there.

Our thinking is that a small fraction of 1G centrifugal force would be ok when operational.

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RB.1.---Robex shall act autonomously or by remote control.

RB.2.---

HW.1.---Robex's main components shall be...

HW.2.---

SR.1.---The seed ring inital cross-section shall be (fig 1).

SR.2.---

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Extrusion Materials and Dimensions: