
Into the anthropocosmos with Ariel Ekblaw
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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TESSERA - A Modular Habitat Concept
Tessera is a modular habitat concept, inspired by ancient roman mosaics and the small glass tiles that comprise a mosaic. It allows you to build space architecture bigger than our biggest rocket palod so far. And not only can you build larger scale structures, unlike inflatable habitats, which also have that principle,. You can re configure them. So if you had a cupla there yesterday, and to morrow you're goig to have a conference in space, and you know, an airlock, you can pressurize the structure, pop off a tile and pop on a new tile.
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