...time Luna and Earth orbiting factories should be churning out a great many solar power satellites, orbital habitats, and [[Eddy Current Brake to Orbit|orbit
...Luna would get the cash from Earth for materials that go into space based solar power plants, habitats and other orbiting structures.
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...a!'''</SPAN><BR/>''A resource for reaching our stepping stone to the Solar System.''<BR/>
...w.moonsociety.org/reports/spb-demo-exhibited.html|Moon Society Unveils the Solar Power Beaming Demonstrator at the International Space Development Conferenc
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==The [[Solar wind]]==
...rtant are [[hydrogen]], [[oxygen]], and later possibly [[Helium3]]. The [[Solar wind]] has been imparting these compounds into the [[lunar regolith]] for b
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...ople, transportation that links Earth to the farthest reaches of the Solar System, space probes and observation devices that far exceed the capabilities of a
...dustry to benefit Earth and extend human capabilities throughout the Solar System. This can be done with only a few people actually on the moon. [[Lunar Ro
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...xtreme conditions found within the interiors of giant planets in our solar system. By creating states of matter extremely difficult to achieve on Earth, the
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...before the rocket-sled is built. Commonly suggested uses are space based solar power and space habitats.
...electric portion of the launch than a minimal all electric cargo launching system and might use temporarily diverted electrical power. So the example config
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...put, or by replacing fossil fuels with [[Solar Power Satellites]], Lunar [[Solar Power]] or Lunar [[Helium3]], or through other lunar [[In Situ Resource Uti
...ly solved through international regulation: a market-based "cap and trade" system for acid rain pollutants, and a ban on production of certain chemicals, mad
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...r more complex reaction sequence, the primary benefit of the HF acid leach system is much lower reaction temperatures. Lower temperature requirements result
The system used to carry out any reaction must be well suited and as inert as possible
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...ling shot manuver = gravity assist manuver to other locations in the solar system. Some delta v is needed for this manuver or to do areobreaking in Earth's a
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...spacecraft, can travel from one of the principal bodies of the Terra-Luna system to the other, we can recognize two basic categories permitted by the laws o
...have been developed, based for example on [[weak boundary capture]] using solar as well as lunar perturbations, & a family of special trajectories involvin
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MikeD says, "there is one fixed requirement, since they need to be solar powered, they need to be able to move quickly so they can avail of the 2 we
Strangelv says, "Need a landing system"
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...sky for one lunar day (29 Earth days). This is a great site for a field of solar panels.
This complex problem requires a multi-faceted effort to provide solutions. [[Solar energy]], hydro-electric, wind; We need them all!
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'''Helium''' is a component of the [[solar wind]], and hence is one of the [[volatiles]] found (in parts per million l
...of <sup>3</sup>He, which is implanted into the lunar [[regolith]] by the [[solar wind]]. Helium is present in the soil in quantities of ten to a hundred (w
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Colonization of the Solar System
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In that case it might be very efficient to use Amonia as reaction mass for solar thermal rockets. It would be a somewhat lower specific impulse than hyd
...In that case it might be very efficient to use CH4 as reaction mass for solar thermal rockets. It would be a somewhat lower specific impulse than hyd
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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
...kilogram cost of launching from the moon could be made available, an SBSP system should be possible with materials available on the moon instead of the ultr
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...if economically successful, recycling rocket exhaust could open the solar system from Mercury to Jupiter to economic exploitation.
...a small percentage of materials needed to build a rocket exhaust recycling system on the moon would need to be imported from Earth. To build all of this from
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[[NASA TM-2004-212743]] - "Reinventing the Solar Power Satellite" and "Peak Power Markets
for Satellite Solar Power" from the Houston IAF Congress.
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...lectrical Conductors|electrical conductor]], and silicon could be used for solar panels or [[In-Situ Propellant Production|rocket fuel]]), this extra energy
...hlorine to produce hydrogen chloride, which is then fed back into the main system.
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...for robotic spacecraft to travel quickly to the outer reaches of the Solar system and begin probing interstellar space. By far, the greatest potential of the
...orward cell handles the main injection of propellant gas and an ionization system; the central cell serves as an amplifier to further heat the plasma to desi
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