Space settlement
Type of space station, intended as a permanent settlement / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A space settlement (also called a space habitat, spacestead, space city or space colony) is a settlement in outer space, sustaining more extensively habitation facilities in space than a general space station or spacecraft. Possibly including closed ecological systems, its particular purpose is permanent habitation.
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No space settlement has been constructed yet, but many design concepts, with varying degrees of realism, have been introduced in science-fiction or proposed for actual realization.
Space settlements include orbital settlements (also called orbital habitat, orbital stead, orbital city or orbital colony)[1] around the Earth or any other celestial body, as well as cyclers and interstellar arks, as generation ships or world ships.[2]
Space settlements are a form of extraterrestrial settlements, which more broadly includes habitats built on or within a body other than Earth, such as a settlement developed from a moonbase, a Mars habitat or an asteroid.