Massive 'Tycho' Space Station 10X Larger Than the ISS Wins Inaugural Aurelia Prize

submitted by artifex to space 44 points | 13 comments https://thedebrief.org/massive-tycho-space-station-10x-larger-than-the-iss-wins-inaugural-aurelia-prize/ A hard shell that unfolds like oragami will fit in a single Starship payload but expand to over 250k cubic meters of space (which seems impossible, that’s like 10 olympic pools) and offers practical solutions for many of the common engineering challenges with building long-term human habitations in orbit.