...without using rocket thrusters. The nonrotating section would have solar cells and communications equipment. Cargoes of fuel and rockets to be refueled o
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...billion years ago the earth suffered a cataclysmic collision with another solar body roughly the size of Mars. The disk of debris from this collision accr
...ride which is an intermediary on the path to high purity silicon for solar cells.
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...sandths of a g that the sun exerts at that distance. Large areas of solar cells might be only a couple of millimeters thick while living spaces would inclu
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...MR]] thrust. Later Luna can supply the stuff for [[Solar Power Satellites|solar power satellites]]. Later yet Luna can supply the stuff for true orbiting
...che, but electric acceleration will open up transportation to and from all solar system bodies of any human interest.
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;Solar Power Zone: This zone should have an unrestricted view of the Sun for as la
...un so that they can present their maximum collection surfaces to the Sun. Solar tracking is far easier to do at all sites on the Moon than on Earth.
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...ot need to be so long if a second umbrella on the same pole is between the solar panel and the rover. The second umbrella would be the same diameter as the
...e will be buying communications and [[Solar Power Satellites | space based solar power]] from others. This is a long time frame for politicians to deal wit
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...spouses and children while industry churns out thousands of tons of solar cells, aluminum electrical wire, bricks, fiber glass, structural metals and other
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== Solar power and lava tube additions are out of place ==
...Do it cheap". Another approach would be to sell a big revenue stream, e.g. solar power satellites.
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...Valuable things like aluminum, iron, silicon, silicon steel, silicon solar cells and silicon oxide based fiber glass can be obtained on the moon and launche
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*Solar concentrators
*Solar panels
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...t and lunar orbit. Lunar materials could also help Earth with space-based solar power as well as enabling the building of massive space habitats. The ques
...gram would enable production of an economically operated SBSP (space based solar power) system.<ref>[http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/KALAM-NSS-Ini
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:It seems technologically possible to produce a space based solar power (SBSP) system for Earth from lunar materials, but the economics cause
...and North-South roads, each type by its proper techniques; make the solar cells and ship products out. Astronauts doing any of those things on the moon by
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The manufacture of lunar glass for radiation protection of solar cells and other optical and electrical applications. Used on the Moon and in Ear
=== [[Solar Power Satellites for Earth]] ===
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...hat lunar materials could be used for space based [[Solar Power Satellites|solar power]] and orbiting space ports. Besides this, a space based civilization
...Ceres and Mars, manufactured goods to Ceres and Mars from Earth and Luna, solar power to Earth from Geostationary orbit, and raw and processed materials to
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# Solar Science
...e amounts of environmental knowledge. The hour-by-hour output of wind and solar plants is totally dependent on the local weather. To reliably generate mas
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...s like how to avoid the bearing problem that threatens the space station's solar arrays. We may need to keep the space station for a while to satisfy inter
...ve us a vital lesson in the return to the Moon and the colonization of the solar system. Go '''BIG'''. [[User:T.Neo|T.Neo]] 10:51, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
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...an operating LRSTO. Then $2 billion each for a couple hundred space-based solar power (SBSP) satellites, beginning with one every year or two and ramping u
...nsive per reactor than ITER and more expensive to operate than space-based solar power. The fusion power community should be put on notice that they should
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