Designing a Habitable Artificial Satellite for Private, Recreational Use

As space is explored and researched more, space tourism will have the opportunity to grow as an industry. This project aims to design and test a space station with the ultimate goal of housing civilians for private recreation. Examples of current and previous spacecrafts were researched for their design, purpose, and function. A new type of artificial satellite was then developed, keeping in mind the differences between all the other research-oriented spacecrafts and this commercial one. This paper discusses the processes by which Computer Aided Design (CAD) software and 3D modeling were used to create an external design of the space station. Stress analysis tests were then performed to determine the design's viability.