Project Hail Mary · Andy Weir, 2021

How big is Rocky's ship, the Blip-A?

~84m

About 84 m long as drawn here, nearly twice the Hail Mary. The book says it's much bigger; the size is the map's guess.

See the two ships side by side
For scale
Space Station, truss 109 mBlip-A 84 mBoeing 747 71 mHail Mary 46 mXenonite tunnel 23 m

From the bookThe map's guessReal world

Grace names it after the radar blip it first shows up as. It is already in orbit round Tau Ceti when he wakes, and it came for the same reason he did: its star is dimming too.

The book says the Blip-A is much bigger than the Hail Mary. Its shape, its 84 m length and the 23 m tunnel Rocky builds between the two ships are the map's guesses.

The tunnel is made of xenonite, with a clear wall halfway along: Grace's air on one side, Rocky's hot, high-pressure ammonia on the other.

See the two ships side by side

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