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Meanings of space colony in English

Russian
космическое поселение
Portuguese
habitação espacial
Spanish
colonia orbital
Catalan
hàbitat espacial

Space station type.

космическое поселение
Synonyms
Examples for "space habitat"
Examples for "space habitat"
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Again, however, in the context of a space habitat this was a good thing.
Seveneves
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But even in the largest space habitat, you couldn't go downhill for all that long.
Seveneves
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A giant space habitat might be just the stepping-stone to the stars that we need.
BBC
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The compartment was generous by space habitat standards.
The Universe — or Nothing
5
Or was it all isotropically three-dimensional-likea zero-geespace habitat, where everything can connect in any direction?
Schild’s Ladder
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So what part can I play in space settlement, a little bit of advance maybe in spacesuits.
Wired
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I'm excited by being a very tiny part of the evolutionary future of our species, which is space settlement.
Wired
3
The main obstacle to enacting a law like the Space Settlement Prize Act is political.
Wired
Usage of space colony in English
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When they rebel on a space colony, replicants are banned and hunted down.
Reuters
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A space colony is just a Dubai-style super-tall desert skyscraper -plus some zero-gravitybone depletion.
BBC
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Nobody even mentioned this place until a day before the rendezvous... Chelsea believes that we are part of an ISA space colony experiment.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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Where no planets are available, life is harder, prone to sudden extinction events: nobody survives the collapse of civilization aboard a space colony.
Palimpsest
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Images: Courtesy of NASA's Space Colony Art from the 1970's page.
Wired
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For the space colonies the Earth disaster was fateful indeed.
The End of Man?
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Dust is one of the biggest obstacles for long-term lunar and Martian space colonies.
Wired
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An urgent task was to discover whether any of the space colonies were still in existence.
The End of Man?
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By the way, don't think International Space Station, these space colonies would hold a million plus people.
Wired
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On the one hand, Earth ethicists argued, were the rights of the inhabitants of the space colonies.
The Universe — or Nothing
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The narrow escape of O'Neill Space Colony II from such a disaster in 2047 has been well documented.
The Fountains of Paradise
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Cause there had been lots of science fiction stories about settling other planets, but never these giant space colonies.
Wired
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Mars would accept half that number, while the other space colonies would open their doors to token numbers of refugees.
The Sails of Tau Ceti
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When the space colonies began to realize what had happened, plans were worked out to save what could be saved.
The End of Man?
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No need to move underground or build space colonies just yet, though: the changes are taking place over millions of years.
BBC
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Some of those rotated to produce simulated gravity; they were like miniature, torus-shaped space colonies pinned to a much bigger structure.
Seveneves