Semyon Bochkaryov

Venus Foam: engineering analysis of a modular floating platform fleet in the Venus cloud layer

Venus Foam is an engineering-physics analysis of a modular floating station in the Venus cloud layer (55.7 km, 22 °C, 0.49 atm). The station stays aloft on the difference in gas densities rather than tethers or thrust, and is built from many identical inflatable cells: its size a...

Venus Foam: engineering analysis of a modular floating platform fleet in the Venus cloud layer

A floating modular station in the cloud layer of Venus. Stays aloft through the difference in gas densities (Archimedean buoyancy in a compressible medium), not tethers or engines. The structure is a mass of identical inflatable cells, not a single hull: it grows by adding cells,...