It is where the center of the official IAU lunar coordinates system is located, i.e. Longitude-0 on the lunar Equator.
...ectenna (receiving antenna) to receive microwave energy beamed down from [[Solar Power Satellites]] located at the Lunar L-1 Lagrange libration location bet
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...omagnetic launching facilities to send passengers and cargo into the solar system. This sort of device could provide truly large scale transportation off pl
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...terest on the capital investment, maintenance and electricity to power the system.
...ht, you will need protection from radiation as well as the extremes of the solar insolation. A railway with tracks several meters apart (wider than on eart
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...on Mars, and it is the major component of several moons of the outer Solar System, as well as much of the debris farther out in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Clou
...ice will sublimate at lunar temperatures and vacuum. Given the energetic solar radiation and '''wind''' the water molecules would be atomized and accelera
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...of orbital facilities built with lunar materials. Having an international system of monitoring lunar activities so that no one nation might secretly convert
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...o fail at anything if they try hard. The proper way to colonize the solar system is not covering the surface of Venus, Mercury, Mars, the moon and the moons
...m his position of ignorance of the technology of colonization of the solar system, Ehrlich did not hesitate to call the problems involved insurmountable. So
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===Repair Solar Power Demo===
*Secure entry into the Guidstar nonprofit system
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*the miner being large enough to carry its solar collector, thermal radiators, and straddle its trench
The solar collector is huge measuring 66 meters (85 ft.) by 47 meters (60 ft.), by 37
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...ach up to the continuous light. This feature boosts the efficiency of your solar panels to 100% all year round which is vital to staying anywhere near the p
...aditional tower design that is fixed and all of the attachments to it like solar panels are fixed too. The problem for a polar tower is the only really good
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They would be a fundamental component of [[Solar Power Satellite]] systems.
..."Kyshtym footprint". The explosion resulted from a failure of the cooling system of the tank<ref>[http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/ural.htm Kysh
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...increased energy to Earth with practically zero pollution from space based solar power stations. Space habitats could be built with lunar and Martian resou
...e to them]]. People would gain access to the resources of the whole solar system.
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==The Solar Challange==
Fortunately a wave of high energy electrons proceeds most solar storms. These particles will not penetrate even thin electrically conducti
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; Solar Energy: We must build numerous solar power stations throughout the American Southwest. Most of these will be of
...ket and stretch out our industrial style of economy long enough to develop solar power from space.
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Strangelv says, "You could also easily have a system with more than one gas giant in the same orbit"<br/>
You say, "or the second largest object in the solar system could be about 10 times as big and actually spontaneously light itself up"<
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...nto independent solar orbit. Some trajectories hang around the Earth moon system for years before finding one of these eventual fates. It would be expected
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...ange of side effects, such as muscle degeneration, weakened cardiovascular system, decrease in bone density, and an increase of fluids such as blood and cere
'''Gravity on various bodies in the Solar System'''
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== Direct Solar Heating ==
===Direct Solar vs RTGs===
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...h remotely operated equipment is used to set up an electrical distribution system, establish temperature controlled pressure vessels as shelters, extract [[o
...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
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The concept of Solar Power Satellites (SPS) was invented and first described, in November 1968 b
...ctenna required per watt would be about 1.9% to 5.6% that of a terrestrial solar panel. Some have proposed beaming down power via lasers instead of microwa
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...lot of the effective [[potential]] (the [[Hill's Surfaces]]) of a two-body system (the [[Sun]] and [[Earth]] here), showing the five Lagrange points.]]
...tem with one body is trivial, as it is merely static relative to itself; a system with two bodies is very simple to solve for, as the bodies orbit around the
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