...ojects over the years, including a so-far-unsuccessful attempt to launch a solar sail, [http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/solar_sailing/ Cosmos-1].
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Space Based Solar Power
...wer flexibly to remote locations. The biggest challenge in building a full system would then be how to launch so much mass into orbit, even if most came from
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...ted for use on Mercury. Mercury is one of three rocky bodies in the solar system that exhibit a global geomagnetic field, the others being Earth and Ganymed
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[[Solar Wind Volatiles]]
[[Lunar Solar Power Arrays]]<BR/>
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...nse of the whole universe. Earth is one of three rocky bodies in the solar system that exhibit a global geomagnetic field, the others being Mercury and Ganym
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(The only moon in the Solar system with a true atmosphere)
[[Category:Solar System]]
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: A Virtual Tour of the Solar System
: Out of this Solar System
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...d colonization of the [[Moon]] and to expand man's presence to other solar system bodies.
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...'''Interorbital Systems''' is also developing an Earth/Moon transportation system for lunar tourism and colonization missions in association with '''Trans Lu
[[Category:Launch System Vendors]]
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...tion, low thrust system which only requires a source of electrical energy (solar power or nuclear power) and a relatively small amount of ionizable reaction
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Colonization of the Solar System
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* to build a Foundation for human expansion into the solar system
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...es of ilmenite was not far enough along to be certain of its usefulness in solar cells. In the sunlight filtered by Earth's atmosphere, silicon cells would
...gov/reports/2006/TM-2006-214360.pdf Evaluation of a Stirling Solar Dynamic System for Lunar Oxygen Production], NASA/TM -- 2006-214360
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The first small scale bases on the Moon will either use [[Solar Power]] or [[Nuclear Power]] (or both).
==Solar Power==
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...as always been a driving force behind humankind's expansion into the solar system. But for you it was the call of the unknown, the adventure of exploring and
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*Solar concentrators
*Solar panels
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...o a factor of ten or more. It will not be enough to make simply lifting a solar power station to GEO an economic proposition.
...the cost of very considerable industry devoted to a recycling life support system. The capital investment per person on the ISS is insufficient.
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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
There are basically two types of solar power, [[Solar Dynamic]] (SD) and [[Photovoltaic]] (PV).
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...an be found [http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/04/will-ants-replace-bees-as-solar-insect.html here.]
==Will Ants Replace Bees As The Solar Insect?==
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...igently designed. The launch to low Earth orbit, the inter-orbit transfer system from low Earth orbit to low lunar orbit (I guess a reusabel electric thrust
...cing products for export and completing a lunar surface to low lunar orbit system. A few candidate systems can be considered.
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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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*Refractory material for solar ovens and smelters
*[[Solar Power Satellites]] construction
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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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...agency will soon set out concrete plans to test a revolutionary new drive system aboard the International Space Station. The propulsion tech in question is
...arth orbit or closer to the sun, plasma drives could draw their power from solar panels - the mainstream means of electricity generation in spacecraft today
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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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