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Asteroid Fly-Byby *Drell-7

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En-Route to her rendezvous with Comet Murasaki-Tate III, the Deep Spacecraft COURAGEOUS flies by the Near Earth Asteroid 2092-3087, nicknamed "Frigid Nelson", in an apparent homage to Captain Dame Daphne Richardson's ex-husband. An impactor cloud of microprobes has been released and will make contact with the asteroid a few hours after COURAGEOUS's closest approach.
Built and rendered in Lightwave 8.5, with post work done in Photoshop CS2.
Thanks for taking a look!

-Tom
©2009-2013 *Drell-7
Category: Digital Art / 3-Dimensional Art / Vehicles / Futuristic

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*AbaCreative Jan 25, 2013  Professional Writer
Woooo-hoooo! New desktop!
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~Javajunkie1976 Jan 20, 2013
Is it flying sideways or am I mistaken? Great image.
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*Drell-7 Jan 20, 2013  Professional General Artist
Well...no. Its flying along the axis of thrust, its just the axis of thrust is at right angles to what you might expect. The ion drive only produces a few hundredths of a G of thrust, but that's fine for deep space, the engine fires continuously for months. The ship is also spinning about the thrust axis, like a propeller, in order to simulate gravity for the crew, who occupy the hab module, nearest to us. The ship's reactor, which provides power for the electric ion drive is at the far end of the rotating boom, to provide a counterbalance for the hab, and to keep the radiation hazard as far away as possible from the crew.
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~Seaquester Jun 22, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Very sharp looking and entirely feasible space craft.
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Mood: Wow! ~beltminer May 14, 2012
simply breathtaking. some time ago i found a copy of out bound courageous,on a random late nite surf for inspiration, never knew it's creator. have since studied the design and excecution many times. what a wonderful surprize to find her here again. it may sound silly but your work touches my heart. thank you my friend.
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~CyberRaven Feb 26, 2012
beautifully rendered, with such detail, now we just need to give NASA or whoever a boot up the backside into making nuclear powered ships
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~weylandyutani Jan 16, 2012
Apparently there's a subgenre of science fiction called "mundane" sci-fi, which is predicated entirely in real science and engineering as it stands now. No warp drive, no bug-eyed monsters. Usually deals with inner solar system exploration, using the kind of tech NASA has in it's toolbox for the forseeable future.

The "Courageous" strikes me as a graphic example of this genre.
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~weylandyutani Apr 30, 2011
Great stuff. Why no Canadian flag?! Ha ha...
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*Drell-7 May 1, 2011  Professional General Artist
OOPS! Definitely an oversight. It might be on the other side. Canada has made consistent, steady, and very important contributions to space tech, including the absolutely essential CanadaArm and CanadaArm 2. I'm sure they're in for the long haul of space exploration.
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~weylandyutani Jan 5, 2012
No worries, just sort of half-joking. Actually this design reminds me a bit of one of the original concept sketches for The Nostromo by Ron Cobb from Alien.

You can see here: [link]

I really like your work, especially the Leonov, which is much closer to Clarke's vision. they look like ships that may actually fly someday!
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