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[Guest Space Cowboy]

Has anyone done a proper 2001 Space Station yet - one that can be landed in? Thanks!

[WooDzor]

picture????? <- Sorry had to add more question marks because the forum doesn't allow me to post short posts..

[Guest Space Cowboy]

Oh yeah here are a couple pictures - I guess it's name is "Space Station V". It will take some work but the center of it has to accommodate this Orion Space Clipper I am working on from the same movie. It's pretty small.

[Tex_NL]

I came pretty close twice.

0.22: Double ring but still pretty small.

0.23: Almost 90 meter diameter.

Check my signature to learn how I build them.

Edit:

Funny how mere minutes after I posted this a relevant topic got resurrected. This mod might be exactly what you're looking for: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/84106-0-23-5-Stanford-Torus-0-1.

Edited August 25, 2014 by Tex_NL

[Guest Space Cowboy]

Nice work!

[Guest Space Cowboy]

Blender

[Guest Space Cowboy]

OrbiterSim

[Red Iron Crown]

Maybe have a look at the Stanford Torus mod. A good bit bigger than the 2001 station though, you might want to adjust its scale factor in its .cfg.

[Guest Space Cowboy]

That's a good idea. I did find these files. Don't know is the KSP / Blender plugin combo or whatever can chew on any of these files....

http://www.2001-3d-archive.info/

[bartekkru99]

I came pretty close twice.

0.22: Double ring but still pretty small.

http://tex.texel.com/ksp022/screenshot32.png

0.23: Almost 90 meter diameter.

http://tex.texel.com/ksp023/screenshot13.2.png

Check my signature to learn how I build them.

Edit:

Funny how mere minutes after I posted this a relevant topic got resurrected. This mod might be exactly what you're looking for: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/84106-0-23-5-Stanford-Torus-0-1.

Hod did you launch it man?It's glorious

[Tex_NL]

Wow. Old thread resurrected after over a year.

The first station was launched regularly in several pieces and docked together. The second, 90 meter ring was build in orbit with IIRC Extraplanetary Launchpads.

[Azimech]

I wasn't inspired by 2001 but it fits quite well here, I think.

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[Castille7]

I wasn't inspired by 2001 but it fits quite well here, I think.

http://imgur.com/a/1LeUd

Azimech was this a single launch or multiple launches?

[Logan.Darklighter]

Has to be landed IN... Hmm.

Have you considered the HX series of parts that come with B9 Aerospace? I'm not suggesting building the entire station out of them. But there are some gigantic hollow sections that are obviously meant for the kind of construction you're talking about.

Just in case anyone points out that B9 is currently not up-to-date with 1.04, I want to point out that if you seek out the main homepage for the development team, they have been working on updates which you can download. You can get updated versions there and though officially it's not up-to-date for 1.04 (and the rule of caveat emptor definitely applies here - you're on your own if something doesn't work) I have been using it and so far have no problems in my 1.04 save.

Large image link here which shows some of the HX parts in action.

I would say one of the large hollow "hanger" sections would work well for your purposes. Particularly if you're also using Tweakscale. The parts do scale up and down in size with that mod, so your large hanger could conceivably consist of a single large structural part! Then you can build the rest of the station around that.

That might possibly reduce significantly the part count needed on the station.

Also - for building - and LAUNCHING - enormous stations, I would recommend the following two videos that may help you.

[Azimech]

Azimech was this a single launch or multiple launches?

Nah, building it so it could be launched in segments would mean an enormous amount of parts extra, and building a launcher for this would mean something with the footprint of the KSC itself. I mean ... this thing is almost 6 million kilograms.

I used Hyperedit.

Maybe in 3 three years we can build something like this ... in space or on Minmus.