In Fiction
Further information: Space stations and habitats in popular cultureA famous fictional space station of this kind is Space Station V, which appears in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Japanese anime Planetes has its main set in "The Seven", the 7th wheel orbital station, while the 9th is under construction by 2075.
Two other examples of this type of space station are in the re-imagined series Battlestar Galactica. Ragnar Anchorage is a three ringed weapons storage station, and the civilian ship Zephyr is a luxury liner featuring a ringed midsection. In the Zenon trilogy (Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, Zenon: The Zequel and Zenon: Z3), 13 year old Zenon lives on a rotating space station owned by the fictional WyndComm from 2049 though 2054 that is similar in appearance to Space Station V, but it is not designed in a way that would allow for artificial gravity through centripetal force like Space Station V of Space Odyssey 2001.
Read more about this topic: Rotating Wheel Space Station
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