Artificial Gravity Station

Mission Profile

Artificial Gravity Station is a generic designation for the class of proposed crewed space station concepts that would rotate to generate centrifugal force mimicking gravity, addressing the well-documented health risks of long-duration microgravity including bone density loss, muscle atrophy, and fluid shifts. Various organizations including NASA, ESA, and private companies have studied rotating station architectures ranging from tethered systems to rigid rings, with rotation rates and radii carefully selected to provide comfortable artificial gravity without causing motion sickness. No rotating artificial gravity space station has yet been built, though the concept has appeared in serious engineering studies since the 1950s and remains a key consideration for the multi-year crewed missions to Mars that future deep space programs envision.