* Offworld [[Solar Power Satellites|Solar Power Satellite]] Construction
*[[Low Earth Orbit Industrial Parks]]
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...n of how we can address this problem and for that we need more data on the Earth's climate.
...with global warming is not going to be large unless we ignore the problem for a few more decades. So there's no reason spending (government money) on cli
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This is the region at the center of the side of the Moon which faces the Earth.
...ellites]] located at the Lunar L-1 Lagrange libration location between the Earth and the Moon.
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<font size=5> Big Ideas for Lunarpedia </font>
...ck-to-the-Moon idea may not be dead but it is at least comatose. The task for Lunarpedia is to breathe some life into it.
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Here are some considerations for the power systems used in our lunar settlement stories.
...small scale bases on the Moon will either use [[Solar Power]] or [[Nuclear Power]] (or both).
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...inviting in the polar regions where mountain tops are available that have solar views 75% to 99% of the time. The sun light is not diminished by an atmosph
...a full cycle every 29 days. On rare occasions it is eclipsed by the Earth for a few minutes.
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==The potential for bootstrapping extraterrestrial industry==
...t 0.044 degrees wide. That allows as much sunlight per person as falls on Earth plus 27 percent more because it made calculations easier. It seems that mo
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NASA chief: ISS tests for super plasma space drive
...that his agency is "at the end stages of agreeing a co-operative agreement for NASA to test the VASIMR engine on station".
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..., other industries join the move to the Moon. Real industry is essential for the settlement to grow into anything more.
The first economic application for the Moon were Schmitt mining settlements which are still harvesting Helium-
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*Earth-Moon L1 Staging area and other Earth-Moon Lagrange Points (e.g. L4, L5)
*Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO)
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...]] and structural materials, and raw materials for other production useful for habitat expansion.
...her materials for manufacture of structures in space such as [[solar power satellites]].
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...a credible way of opening up the industrial use of raw materials in space for profit in some faster way.
...e. Develop the scram jets at a modest rate of expenditure, but don’t wait for them before starting a remotely controlled industrial base on Luna. Bet on
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<font size=5> Earth Population and our Return to the Moon</font>
...t-term it does not. The problem then is one of keeping the program viable for the long term.
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The concept of Solar Power Satellites (SPS) was invented and first described, in November 1968 by Dr.[[Peter Glas
Ref: Glaser, Peter E. "Power from the Sun: Its Future". Science Magazine, 22 November 1968 Vol 162, Issu
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...delivered a sales presentation for a research and industrial park proposed for a site near the south pole of the Moon. This work was done at the [[NASA]]
...Research and Industrial Park. It is the most valuable real-estate off the Earth and is located near the South Pole of the Moon.
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...n reasonably recoverable concentrations, and could export them to Luna and Earth orbiting factories. It has been suggested that importing goods from Ceres
...re should be a large fraction of the take-off weight in orbit. With wings for a supersonic in ground effect landing in the 0.1 psi Martian atmosphere, th
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...t constant power. An electrodeless design enables the rocket to operate at power densities much greater than those of more conventional magnetoplasma or ion
...R is expected to lie in its ability to significantly reduce the trip times for human missions to Mars and beyond. This reduction in times is expected to e
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...ement on the Moon. Later there will surely be many lunar settlements, but for right now we need to focus on where to place the very first settlement usin
NASA chose a site, [[Crater Shackleton]], for planning purposes in [[NASA_Exploration_Strategy]] but claimed the choice w
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...is a Lunarpedia category list of every conceivable way we have thought of for a lunar settlement to make money. We do not know what ideas will actually
...e a business plan you must have the business environment clearly defined. For this list two separate settlement time periods are covered, Near-Term and L
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...uld fit on a desk top and be ready to work with the others. If electrical power water and feed stock are provided, one module could make all the others. G
...ey seem to think that if an industrial infrastructure is not as big as the Earth including as many people as live today, it cannot sustain itself and produc
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