- spacecraft designed to carry multiple generations
- self-sustaining for large populations, for a long journey
- Aurora - Kim Stanley Robinson goes into imaginative detail about how a generation ship could be designed, and what considerations must be made in enabling such a long journey through space
- will there really be a day in the future when an effort is made to create something like this ? what will the state of humanity be at the time our solar system expires ? i will never know … the scale of the universe → The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
possible failures
- life support systems
- fully closed eco life support systems to recycle air, water, nutrients
- failure in oxygen generation, co2 scrubbing, food production…
- mechanical degradation
- mechanical parts degrade from damage, replacements are difficult
- power system failure
- collisions with space debris
real tech
- real example of long-term oxygen system: international space station (ISS)
considerations from Aurora - Kim Stanley Robinson
todo