THE VOYAGER SPACE STATION
The Voyager Space Station is a planned rotating-wheel space station set to begin construction in 2025. Pioneered by the Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), Voyager will differ from the International Space Station in two key ways: it will be open to the public and it will have artificial gravity. Placed in a low-earth orbit, the space hotel will rotate rapidly enough to generate artificial gravity for its 400 occupants. If the station is completed as currently planned it will become the largest human-made structure ever placed into orbit.
The first steps of the project will include the creation of a prototype gravitational ring to improve that artificial gravity in space is viable. The 60-metre-diameter ring will generate gravity equivalent to roughly 40 per cent that of Earth’s, or about the same as the gravity of Mars.