#spingrav

My attempt at the JSM Endurance by SAD Frontier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0qwCD-cOwc

ICS Blind Hope - a Thumper (nuclear pulse rocket) by @prokhorvlg

An Orion warship launches its compliment of missiles while under fire from Casaba Howitzers

Theseus, from 'Blindsight' by Peter Watts. I referenced the official art, but tried to stick to the proportions and description in the book, which include an outer carapace I've never seen anyone depict. Basically an antimatter-catalyzed RAIR which acquires its antiprotons from a giant array near the sun using quantum teleportation (not how that actually works, but an honest misunderstanding). As best I can understand, the ramscoop not only collects but carries hydrogen in its magnetic field, acting as a colossal external propellant tank, and cycling that hydrogen in and out of the reactor as a mix between a Dusty Plasma Radiator and Open-Cycle Cooling For reference: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm https://www.rifters.com/blindsight/theseus.htm# https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight3.php#id--Go_Fast--RAIR

A rotating space station in the style of Kalpana One, at 1-6th my normal scale (the nearby spacecraft is roughly the size of a Nimitz-class supercarrier)

Kalpana One space station at 1-30th my normal scale. On the right, for comparison, an LCOTV, AFFRE, and Saturn V

ToughTober build I never got to: Shadow Shield A solar-electric transport operating to/from Mercury. As much of the rocket as possible is hidden behind the solar panels, which the Canfield Joint thrusters keep facing the sun at all times.

A Stanford Torus space station at 1-30th my regular scale. Size comparison with the Kalpana One space station, LCOTV, AFFRE, and Saturn V