...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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...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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...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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...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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We are just completing a moderate-sized solar power system of 100 kilowatts on high ground. We need to use the power for an industria
The solar power station has a power conditioner that puts out 1000 volts of three-pha
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...o transmit the large image files to Earth. The main payload is the camera system. It consists of two cameras: one with a wide-angle lens (80 mm) and the ot
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*Near-Infrared Volatile Spectrometer System (image spectrometer used to measure surface composition)
*Neutron Spectrometer System (neutron spectrometer used to measure hydrogen abundance)
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...stem of the miner must be considered in the design and many ideas for each system must be studied and tested. The key systems of the miner are:
;Power System: Provide kilowatts of power and remove the waste heat.
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* Collect solar power for both heat and electricity
...no''' access to sunlight here and Earth communication will require a relay system. The environmental temperatures range from 40K to 100K, that is, cryogenic
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...de providing by [[Mass Drivers|mass driver]] the materials for space-based solar power on Earth, [[Orbital Ring|solving overpopulation]], providing Earth-sc
In addition, the Moon is the closest large body in the solar system to Earth. While some Earth-crosser asteroids occasionally pass closer, the
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...l devices with a response time of 3 seconds. Luna is the key to the solar system. This is why it is so important to get ground truth from the lunar poles.
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...already been successfully attempted by the Japanese [[Hayabusa]] mission. Solar power (either electrical or via reflectors) would be used to heat the aster
Both ion propulsion and solar sailing give continuous but very low thrust, so trips would be long term en
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