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A new plan concocted by scientists and researchers at Delft University of Technology aims to take the center of hollowed-out asteroids and use these as the setting for what would be massive starships holding different generations of space travelers as they explore other solar systems.
The researchers have recently christened the new venture as the Evolving Asteroid Starship, and called themselves the TU Delft Starship Team, or DSTART, according to Phys.org.
In their search for the perfect vehicle for interstellar travel, the team is looking at taking an asteroid that has been completely hollowed out and using this as a new home for would-be voyagers.
As DSTART’s Angelo Vermeulen explained, the inside of an asteroid could very well be the key to holding the kind of life support system capable of sustaining many generations of space travelers.
A video which shows how this radical new technology could work shows numerous rockets hooked up to the asteroid, which would enable the person in charge of controlling the spaceship to easily control its movement.
ince traveling beyond our own solar system and venturing into others could take up to a century, and at the very least decades, the idea of a hollowed-out asteroid could quite possibly hold the key to self-sufficient space travel, with these starships containing their own mini cities inside of them.
According to DSTART, these starships need to be objects that act just like other organisms do, as the Daily Mail report.
It is hoped that these unique starships will be able to take carbon dioxide, along with natural waste, and turn these into food, water, and oxygen, all crucial things when the survival of the humans inside is at stake.
Researchers at DSTART will be unveiling their very first computer simulation of the hollowed-out asteroid starship at Rome’s AgroSpace-MELiSSA workshop next month.
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