Engineer thinks we could build a real Starship Enterprise in 20 years

In Star Trek traditional knowledge , the first Starship Enterprise will be work up by the year 2245 . But today , an engineer has propose – and outlined in punctilious detail – construct a full - sized , ion - powered version of the enterprisingness perfect with 1 G of gravity on board , and order it could be done with current applied science , within 20 yr . “ We have the technological reach to build up the first propagation of the spaceship know as the USS Enterprise - – so let ’s do it , ” writes the curator of theBuild The Enterprise internet site , who go by the name of BTE Dan .

This “ Gen1 ” Enterprise could get to Mars in ninety days , to the Moon in three , and “ could hop-skip from planet to planet dropping off robotic probe of all sort en masse – - rovers , special - work up planing machine , and satellite . ”

consummate with conceptual innovation , ship specs , a funding schedule , and almost every other conceivable detail , theBTE websitewas launched just this week and covers almost every aspect of how the projection could be done . This enterprisingness would be build up entirely in distance , have a splay gravity section inside of the saucer , and be similar in size with the same look as the USS Enterprise that we know from Star Trek .

“ It end up that this ship configuration is quite operative , ” write BTE Dan , even though his design moves a few parts around for better operation with today ’s engineering . This version of the Enterprise would be three things in one : a starship , a space station , and a spaceport . A thousand people can be on board at once – either as crowd members or as adventuresome visitors .

While the ship will not travel at warp amphetamine , with an ion propulsion railway locomotive powered by a 1.5GW nuclear reactor , it can locomote at a unceasing acceleration so that the ship can well get to key points of sake in our solar system . Three additional nuclear reactors would make all of the electricity needed for performance of the ship .

The saucer section would be a .3 mile ( 536 meter ) diam splay , magnetically - freeze gravity cycle that would create 1 G of gravity .

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The first appointment for the Enterprise would have the ship serve as a space station and space port , but then go on to missions to the Moon , Mars , Venus , various asteroid and even Europa , where the ships ’ laser would be used not for combat but for slue through the lunar month ’s icy crust to enable a probe to descend to the ocean below .

Of course , like all space ship today , the big “ if ” for such an ambitious effort would be getting Congress to provide NASA the backing to do a huge 20 - class project . But BTE Dan has that all make out , and between tax increases and distribute out budget cut of meat to areas like defense , health and human services , trapping and urban ontogenesis , education and energy , the cuts to area of discretional outlay are not large , and the tax increases could be small . “ These changes to outlay and taxes will not sink the republic , ” say the site . “ In fact , these will barely be noticed . It ’s astonishing that a course of study as fantastic as the building a fleet of USS Enterprise spaceships can be done with so little encroachment . ”

“ The only obstacles to us doing it are the restriction we place on our corporate imagination , ” BTE Dan summate , and his marriage offer says that NASA will still receive funding for the skill , astronomy and robotlike missions it currently undertakes .

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But he proposes not just one Enterprise - class ship , but multiple ships , one of which can be establish every 33 years – - once per coevals – - giving three new ship per century . “ Each will be more forward-looking than the anterior one . old ship can be continually raise over several coevals until they are finally decommissioned . ”

BTE Dan , who did not respond to electronic mail , heel himself as a systems engineer and electrical engineer who has work at a Fortune 500 society for the past 30 years . The website includes a web log , a forum and a Q&A section , where BTE Dan answers the interrogation , “ What if someone can prove that building the Gen1 Enterprise is beyond our technological compass ? ”

Answer : “ If someone can convince me that it is not technically possible ( ignoring political and funding issues ) , then I will tell on the BuildTheEnterprise site that I have been found to be wrong . In that event , building the first Enterprise will have to wait for , say , another half century . But I do n’t think that anyone will be able to convince me it ca n’t be done . My position is that we can - – and should – - immediately start working on it . ”

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