MERIDIAN SPACESHIP YARD

MERIDIAN SPACE DOCKS (Version Delta2)

The place, where the UMS ÜBERLICHT is build.
UMS Überlicht details

Now contains all 4 Überlicht Dinghy ships
- Lichtbringer (Bringer if Light)
- Friedensbringer II (Bringer of Peace)
- Four Foot (Hospital Ship)
- Aldebaran (VTOL, Version "Canada")

The habitation rings have been extended by a big second habitation section, so now more than 1000 workers can live there.

The Lock-Up clutch mechanism has been improved. There are now upper and lower lock-up clutches for fixation of the so-called Dog Clutch Modules (see below).

I thought about, how workers will build such a ship at such a station. The building of such an epochal ship will last many months/years, so there must be adequate room for the workers, meaning artificial gravity for them to live in. Habitation rings with centrifugal force generated gravity is the first choice for that. The workers have to move between the Habitation Rings and their working place, that is in zero gravity (which helps a lot when lifting huge masses used for the ULCS - ÜberLicht Class Ship - vessels).
But how to solve the problem of rotating habitation rings and nonrotating working area ?
The workers have to be for weeks or months at the station (which currently produces the UMS ÜBERLICHT, eta = 1.1.2100). There must be a somewhat comfortable and secure way of switching between the two zones (esp. becuase they are workers and not Neil Armstong like trained super astonauts).

At Meridian Station there are two DOG CLUTCH MODULES between the central station axis and the two Habitation Rings (where 200 workers relax from heavy work in non gravity workings zone).
As you can see in picture 3, the yellow parts rotate at a differend speed than the Habitation Rings, if the Rigid- (or "Lock-Up") Clutches are not docked with the Habitation Ring. The golden parts are additionally free to move in axial direction (supported by spring/damper), so they can couple smoothly.
(This principal is derived from clutches used in automobiles by the way.)

So when moving from Habitation Ring to central part, workers enter the golden habitation spaces (for that the rigid connectors, implemented by docking ports here, must be closed). Then the docking ports are released (with AG1) and the Dog Clutch Modules can rotate freely. With Slider1 and Slider2 you can control the two axially placed motors before and behind the Dog Clutch Module, controlling the rotational speed of the module.
Bring the rotation speed to zero, then the workers can leave the habitation space and have a hard 6h shift on the Überlicht.
Going back to Habitation is reverse then.

Experiment successful, in principal.

Acknowledgements

• @CanadaDuck for the MarkV capsule of the Aldebaran
• @JanusSpaceIndustries for great Motivation&Ideas
• @AstroAerospace for inspiration