Of course, like all space ships today, the big “if” for such an ambitious effort would be getting Congress to provide NASA the funding to do a huge 20-year project. The first assignments for the Enterprise would have the ship serving as a space station and space port, but then go on to missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus, various asteroids and even Europa, where the ships’ laser would be used not for combat but for cutting through the moon’s icy crust to enable a probe to descend to the ocean below. 3 mile (536 meter) diameter rotating, magnetically-suspended gravity wheel that would create 1G of gravity. Three additional nuclear reactors would create all of the electricity needed for operation of the ship. While the ship will not travel at warp speed, with an ion propulsion engine powered by a 1.5GW nuclear reactor, it can travel at a constant acceleration so that the ship can easily get to key points of interest in our solar system. A thousand people can be on board at once – either as crew members or as adventurous visitors.
This version of the Enterprise would be three things in one: a spaceship, a space station, and a spaceport. “It ends up that this ship configuration is quite functional,” writes BTE Dan, even though his design moves a few parts around for better performance with today’s technology. This Enterprise would be built entirely in space, have a rotating gravity section inside of the saucer, and be similar in size with the same look as the USS Enterprise that we know from Star Trek. Credit: Ĭomplete with conceptual designs, ship specs, a funding schedule, and almost every other imaginable detail, the BTE website was launched just this week and covers almost every aspect of how the project could be done.
Size comparisons of buildings to the proposed USS Enterprise.
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