Wells-class interplanetary vehicle
By the dawn of the XXII century, humanity’s thirst for Deuterium and Anti-Deuterium became so immense that companies began harvesting raw Hydrogen from the gas and ice giant planets. For that purpose, thousands of interplanetary spaceship tankers that work as refineries were built in order to transport the collected gas from the atmospheres of those planets to space stations over Earth, the Moon and other locations in the Solar System.
This project started as part of an episode of Isaac Arthur's Science and Futurism YouTube channel on Jupiter's colonization which can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQnvjGN91Mg&t=1409s
Check out the Spearhead-type space drone project:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/WWrJX
Gas harvesting with Spearhead-type space drones at Jupiter
Gas harvesting with Spearhead-type space drones at Jupiter
Traveling in space
Traveling in space
Visiting Saturn
Gas harvesting with Swarmer-type space drones at Uranus
Visiting Earth with a Spearhead-type space drone
Rigged finished 3D model
Rigging details
Rigging details
Concept sketches
Early concept
Early 3D model
Early 3D model
Test animation
Earlier version in low resolution appearance on Isaac Arthur's Science and Futurism YouTube channel
Earlier version in low resolution appearance on Isaac Arthur's Science and Futurism YouTube channel