Re: Parking Orbit
- From: "Brad Guth" <ieisbradguth@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 19 Feb 2006 12:47:27 -0800
A parking orbit (aka station-keeping platform/tank-farm) of a massive
fuel depot in the sky, of LL-1 accommodating those sorts of volumes and
of whatever mass as offering an unlimited solution isn't or at least it
shouldn't hardly be rocket science. At least not by now, especially in
that so many satellite deployments (including those of our Apollo
fiasco) have more than proven their translunar capability.
LL-1 is not technically of what's nearly as taboo/nondisclosure as
you'd think. It's not even all that far away nor without benefit of
the lunar gravity itself. Actually taking advantage of the moon/sun
alignment is one better yet, and of those deployments taking the full
lunar cycle of 29.5 days of getting whatever tonnage transferred away
from Earth and efficiently arriving into the LL-1 sweet-spot isn't a
robotic DNA problem that I know of.
Since retrothrust reserves of rocket fuel isn't a significant
requirement for getting substantial tonnage into that zone (merely
reaction thruster should more than do the trick), and the interactive
gravity-well and of tidal forces should work in our favor. Therefore,
where exactly is the supposed insurmountable or dumbfounded problem?
As long as we don't have to deal with banking the likes of robotic bone
marrow, and since the LL-1 zone is supposedly a good 60,000 km away
from our reactive and therefore extremely nasty moon by day (by
earthshine being as little as 0.1% as nasty), is why the LL-1 zone is
so space-depot accommodating. There's also the very least amount of
local plus solar wind medium to deal with, and it's even somewhat
shielded by the extended magnetosphere of mother Earth.
As for Earth-science and moon-science and just plain old
astronomy/astrophysics science on steroids, there's none better than
LL-1. I think it's even humanly safer and most certainly it's far more
accessible and thereby end-user friendly than being entirely exposed
and out-of sight via LL-2.
Short duration transits of getting crew from Earth to LL-1 should be
doable within 24 hours, although requiring a fair amount of SRM or LRB
retrothrust. A gravity free fall back to mother Earth seems rather
energy efficient, as well as deploying whatever into lunar orbit should
no longer be nearly as complicated as it is. Even the notions of
deploying nukes from LL-1 isn't insurmountable, although from a
tethered deployed platform that can be efficiently sustained at 50,000
km away from Earth (25,000 km if you'd dare) might seriously improve
the odds of our nukes taking out whatever cash of their nukes before
they ever get launched in the first place.
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Brad Guth
Life upon Venus, a township w/Bridge & ET/UFO Park-n-Ride Tarmac:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm
The Russian/China LSE-CM/ISS (Lunar Space Elevator)
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm
Venus ETs, plus the updated sub-topics; Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm
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