Study of the microgravity environment and analysis of the engineering approaches for in-orbit artificial gravity generation

Human body deconditioning on astronauts during long duration deep space mission is now well-recognized and studied since the past 7 decades. In the last 30 years designers and engineers have worked in order to define functional countermeasure that goes beyond the simple exercise conducted during spaceflight on the manned space stations (the current method used to reject the degradation and modification of the human body physiology caused by microgravity). This work follows these studies and discusses the potential technologies developed with a particular attention to both the long radius s and short radius centrifuges; in particular, the latter was accompanied by the sizing of a simplified prototype and a whole description of the characteristics of this kind of machines and constraints associated. The works ambitiously underlines the importance of implementing such systems in a long duration deep space mission in order to preserve astronaut’s health and the mission as a whole.