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Saturday, August 27, 2016

Pluto Charon Elevator

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Double Tidal Locking Pluto and Charon are mutually tidally locked. That is, they both present the same face to the other planet all the...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Tran Cislunar Railroad

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Three Orbital Tethers This post revisits  Orbital Momentum As A Commodity . But now I will examine these tethers using Wolfe's spread...
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Monday, August 8, 2016

Lunar Sky Hook

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Kim Holder has been urging me to do this blog post. Her comments in various forums have been helpful in thinking about this. Vertical Lun...
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Friday, July 22, 2016

Hildas As Cyclers

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Hilda Asteroids - Red ,    Sun Jupiter Trojans - Blue ,    Main Belt - Green The above image was made from screen captures of S...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Rotovator help with re-entry

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There are proposals for rotovators to catch payloads in low earth orbit and then throw them to higher orbits. It occurs to me that rotovat...
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Saturday, April 16, 2016

Liftport Lunar Tether

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This is the fifth in a series of posts using Chris Wolfe's spreadsheet to look at various elevators. 274,000 km Lunar Tether This ...
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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Limits to growth, logistic vs exponential

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Malthusian growth model The Malthusian growth model sees population growth as exponential. P(t) = P o e rt where P o  =  P(0) is the...
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