NASA (NIAC) – TURBOLIFT + Lockheed-Martin MARS BASE CAMP

Turbolift Hybrid Artificial Gravity concept proposed by IMSG Laboratories Inc. and selected for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase I study. Video © 2017 Perry Papadopoulos

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2017_Phase_I_Phase_II/Turbolift

NASA 360 Video: https://youtu.be/dfbn7b8v2wM

Artist’s conception of the Turbolift system, illustrated together with the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G formerly known as Deep Space Gateway), the Deep Space Transport (Evolvable Mars Campaign), and the Lockheed Martin Mars Base Camp concept vehicles.

Team:
Jason A Gruber (Principal Investigator & NIAC Fellow)
Jace Gruber (Test Pilot)
Professor Torin K. Clark
Kimia Seyedmadani
Sjon H Buckhalter
Bryan Reed
Vaughn Cooper

3D-Modeling and Video © 2017 by Perry Papadopoulos All Rights Reserved – www.youtube.com/fragomatik

Images courtesy NASA and NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Skybox created using SPACESCAPE by Alex Peterson
http://alexcpeterson.com/spacescape/

Some 3d assets courtesy NASA
https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models