An orbital vehicle for Imaginactive, from an idea by Charles Bombardier — a propulsion truss, a docking node, two inflatable habitat modules and a crew capsule, assembled into one stack in low Earth orbit.
The persuasive move in this concept is restraint. Rather than inventing a spacecraft whole, the vehicle is assembled from hardware that already flies or has already been announced — a crew capsule, a commercial docking node, inflatable habitat modules of the kind that have been tested on orbit — and adds only the piece that does not exist yet.
That piece is the propulsion truss: an open lattice at one end of the stack carrying spherical tanks and a nozzle, deliberately left unskinned. Nothing is gained by wrapping a structure that never enters an atmosphere, and leaving it open makes the vehicle legible — you can see what is tank, what is structure and what is engine.
The visualisation work runs in two registers, the same split that serves any hardware concept: clean white plates that read as a technical elevation, and orbital frames over a night-side Earth that put the thing somewhere real.
Five studio plates and three frames on orbit.








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