Ueli, have been rereading the Robonautics Benchmarks statement, which seems comprehensive. Are we ready to open a new subgroup on this yet? Examples of such...
Thanks Pat, Good you took up contact again. There was just a cryptic oneliner saying something like "they are ships without brains" or something like that, so...
Thanks Martha, I'm taking this exchange to NEAmines, because I think it is right on the mark! Good to know you're out there and working on this stuff at your...
Hi all, First of all let me tell everybody on this mother NEAmines, that Jim, Jan and myself are hitting it off over in the daughter Yahoo "Habitats" while...
Hi all, Just read about Progress 26 leaving the ISS full of trash, to burn up in the atmosphere.... What increasingly stuns me is that here we have a fully...
Jim, We had been discussing water tanks, and how to keep their temperatures stable. I saw that you mentioned we would have to worry about water freezing in the...
Hi all, Here's another draft chapter of our "Benchmark 2": Pulling together where we stand with regard to CREW SHIPS. Please send in feedbacks so I can be sure...
Merry Christmas to all. I think we should keep all garbage until we have enough to line a large torus with about ten meters of shielding. Anything will work...
Yes Jim, I think that makes a lot of sense. We will collect anything that cannot be used otherwise (think of slabs of baked ceramics or sintered rock out of...
Hi all, Here's another draft chapter of our "Benchmark 2": Pulling together where we stand with regard to FREIGHTERS. Please send in feedbacks so I can be sure...
Hi all, Here's another draft chapter of our "Benchmark 2": Pulling together where we stand with regard to SCOUTS and PROSPECTORS. Please send in feedbacks so I...
Hi all, Here's another draft chapter of our "Benchmark 2": Pulling together where we stand with regard to NAVIGATION. Please send in feedbacks so I can be sure...
This looks fine to me, Ueli. The only query I have is about freighters coming down to LEO at all. But you do also mention that large freighters would dock at...
I note this is not yet a fully 'established' section yet, Ueli! This should also include communication. There is a need for 'lighthouses' that provide a deep...
Okay Jan, just an off the cuff reply: With communication you mean just the navigational fixes here, right? Because communication would also include just about...
Well Jan, Those freighters do need to brake into Earth orbit anyway, whether at LEO or for easing into L4/5. If we could aerocapture into a trajectory that...
This looks like we might have a breakthrough here that makes many things possible, particularly launching modules with overall lower mass. Might even save the...
Ueli, The reason I drew attention to this aspect is that so many aspects of control of NEA robotic craft require real-time feedback for safe and accurate...
Just a reality check there, Ueli............ I have not completed a final Hopper Freighter, yet, and having a braking shield upfront was the debating point....
Hm Jan, you're right! This makes us take a peep into the whole can of worms of teleoperations with signal lag! Micronavigation around a NEA with the next human...
Jan, good you're doing this reality check.... Nope, I wasn't thinking of heat-shields on large freighters. I have my serious doubts about the wisdom of...
Jan, Sure, the freighter design for NEAs would also be applicable for anything to do with sending stuff to Mars, including all the considerations of...
Happy New Year! Human and freight will likely not be traveling on the same path and definetly not the same velocity. That sounds nice, but momentum is critical...
I think I was the one suggesting Phobos as the place to manufacture outer space ships, orbiting solar power system, and such. There are those that have pointed...
Right Jim, I now remember you were strong on setting up a power base on Phobos. However, I still fail to see the economics of a Phobos station. Phobos is just...
Ueli, have been looking back at the Phobos issue from when I first set up the EOS Program, and remember that I considered it to be, in effect, a free orbital...
Well Jan, All the advantages you point out for Phobos could be just as well provided by any other asteroid. And the only disadvantage that Phobos has is being...
I don't think anyone is advocating a base on Phobos and forgetting about all the other wealth on asteroids and moons our there. But there is an overwhelming...
...and when Phobos runs low on resources (or even before), it can continue as a processing and manufacturing location for materials from the main belt destined...
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