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Galactic Suite Design

Galactic Suite Design is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Galactic Suite Design rather than just read about it. In short: Galactic Suite Design is an aerospace design company based in Barcelona, Spain. The company develops concepts and designs for aerospace projects.

Key takeaways

Galactic Suite Design belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Galactic Suite Design to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Galactic Suite Design from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Galactic Suite Design is an aerospace design company based in Barcelona, Spain. The company develops concepts and designs for aerospace projects. The company became well known for its announcement of the Galactic Suite Space Resort, a cancelled plan to create an orbital space station. Galactic Suite Design was the lead company in the consortium of companies fielding the Barcelona Moon Team, a competitor for the Google Lunar X Prize, with a Moon launch scheduled for 2014.

History

Galactic Suite Space Resort The Galactic Suite Space Resort is a cancelled 2007 concept proposal for an orbital space station. The Galactic Suite Space Resort space station began as a hobby for Xavier Claramunt, architect and director of Galactic Suite Design. The station reportedly entered development after an unnamed space enthusiast invested US$3 billion to build it. An unnamed American company with the goal of colonising Mars assisted in some of the early stages of the project, and discussions with additional private investors from Japan, the United States and the United Arab Emirates have taken place.

Early design concepts called for a central hub with a dozen modules radiating outwards, providing an indefinite number of bedrooms for several customers at a time. Claramunt said that while it would be a challenge to design a bathroom that works in microgravity, showers might be taken in a spa room with bubbles of floating water. The issue of moving around in space would be solved by having guests wear suits of Velcro for sticking to the module walls, similar to its use in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The station was to conceivably orbit the Earth once every 90 minutes, providing 16 day-and-night cycles every 24 hours. The company stated in 2010 that a three-day stay was projected to cost US$4 million per customer. Company studies found that 40,000 people worldwide were capable of affording such a stay. The project was supposed to have included an "astronaut training center" and spaceport.

In 2008, Claramunt stated that construction of the station would begin in October of that year, and that European company EADS Astrium would be the contractor in charge of building the modules and other equipment. However, Astrium denied any involvement in the project. In November 2010, the company announced that a first phase would bring into orbit a single modified ATV module for a cost of €400 million, while a second phase would increase the total number of modules up to four in a cross configuration. Some experts, including Thomas Bouvet (International Astronautical Federation), Mark Homnick (4Frontiers) and Juan de Dalmau (Centro Tecnológico para la Industria Aeronáutica y del Espacio) expressed skepticism about the project, raising concerns that Galactic Suite would be unable to meet the 2012 goal because no hardware had been built and tested, and that no rocket system was available to transport guests to the station. The investment was also predicted to have fallen short of the project's needs; for example, the suborbital shuttle proposed by EADS Astrium would cost €1 billion, and the conversion of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle into a human-rated transport system would cost around €2 billion. By 2021, the project had been cancelled permanently.

Barcelona Moon Team

Galactic Suite Design was the lead company in a consortium of companies fielding the Barcelona Moon Team in the Google Lunar X Prize competition. GSD does so through a filial company, Galactic Suite Moon Race. BMT is the official candidate to the GLXP. The team was a multidisciplinary joint venture. The team also includes the Centre of Aerospace Technology in Barcelona (CTAE), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) or the international engineering advisory firm Altran. BMT wants to promote a widening involvement of private initiative in the development of space technology and industry, also including sectors such as exploration and tourism. The Barcelona Moon Team GXLP mission was scheduled to launch aboard a Chinese Long March 2C in June 2015. However, the team later withdrew their entry from the competition.

References

External links Galactic Suite Design official site Galactic Suite Space Resort official site Google Lunar X-Prize official site

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Galactic Suite Design

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Galactic Suite Design claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Galactic Suite Design before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Galactic Suite Design ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Galactic Suite Design

In research: Galactic Suite Design appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Galactic Suite Design in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Galactic Suite Design is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Companies based in Barcelona, Private spaceflight companies, Proposed space stations, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Galactic Suite Design outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Galactic Suite Design in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Galactic Suite Design means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Galactic Suite Design out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Galactic Suite Design in simple terms?

Galactic Suite Design is an aerospace design company based in Barcelona, Spain. The company develops concepts and designs for aerospace projects.

Why does Galactic Suite Design matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Galactic Suite Design?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Galactic Suite Design.