>>13823934Expanding/Inflatable modules can have much larger volume than the fairing that caries them, because they start in a collapsed/folded state and could expand to more than double their starting diameter, depending on which method of inflation you use. Lets say the core of the hab is 7m in diameter, this is closer than not to the maximum diameter Starship can fit in it's cargo bay (this is because there needs to be room on all sides for tiedowns and insulation/crash padding), and the payload bay can carry an object of say up to 18m in height so you make your module that tall. If it's a metal can hab it's internal volume would be roughly 692m^3, very respectable, certainly much larger than any current canhab, but if it can expand to *only* twice it's starting diameter, like the Bigelow habs, then you'd have 2270m^3 of habitat volume, double that of the ISS in a single Starship launch. If each deck of your hab is 2.5m tall that would give you a habitat with seven decks.
This would mean the hab only has to be a total of 22m further away from a center of mass to give .5g at the furthest deck. Assuming a hub which is also 14m in diameter, you only need connecting tunnels 5m long to affix them to the hub.
You could probably cram six such habs onto one hub, giving you 13,620m^3 of habitat with some level of artificial gravity, which is 14 times more than the ISS.
