可伸缩式转移居住舱结构方案的探讨

ARCHITECTURE DISCUSSION OF TRANSHAB

描述了一种新型的可伸缩式居住舱——可充气式转移居住舱(TmnsHab)。该项目可用于星际间的转移居住舱,也可装配到空间站上。发射时,所有要用到的仪器设备都提前装入舱内,整个舱体呈收缩状态装入航天飞机的货舱内,待人轨后,舱体像气球一样充气展开。展开后舱体的容积大,而质量却轻得多。本文着重讨论了这种可充气式转移居住舱的基本结构形式,并与其他几种美国先前研制的可伸缩结构进行了比较。提出了该种类型结构形式的技术难点、发展前景,以及我国进行该种结构研究的必要性。

This paper describes one new type of extendable habitation module - inflatable TransHab. The program can be applied in interplanetary Transhab, or be assembled on the Space Station. When launched, all the equipments and instruments involved are enclosed in the capsule in advance. The whole module is installed in the hold of the Space Shuttle as retracted. After into the orbit, the capsule is inflated to extend like a balloon. The extended capsule is much light with very large volume. This paper focuses on the argument of the basic structure of this inflatable TransHab, and compares it with some extendable structures ever studied in USA, then puts forward the technical difficulty of this kind of structure, future developing, as well as the necessity to study this structure.