With regard to the discovery of Lunar water, NASA is proposing microwave processing of regolith to extract volatiles, which confirms the choice of mining...
More incentive to develop regolith shields: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327266.100-too-much-radiation- for-astronauts-to-make-it-to-mars.html No...
OK. Breakthrough milestone on solar cells now in startup: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/nanosolar/ This would appear to enable developments as...
The future of (US) state-sponsored manned space exploration seems to have expired: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/space/6608858.html Does this leave the...
http://www.jpaerospace.com/ http://www.jpaerospace.com/Away36-37/away36-37.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_airship It is always surprising to find...
Taking a leaf out of Nature's book.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/11/artificial-leaf-energy The Hydrogen battery looks increasingly...
Ueli, Have been pondering what criteria apply to an HTV alternative: [1] CONVENTIONAL LIQUID FUEL ROCKET (as Ariane, Blue Streak etc.) Earth Lift-off:...
I have been reviewing my original and much older concept for an 'Interorbital Transporter': http://www.eosmarsprogram.org/Page31-01b-Space.html This included a...
Jim, I've looked through all the mails re. METs and their hybridization with chemical processes and the "basking and boosting" reasons for energy storage and...
Hi folks, Can I get a feedback on whether the Table is usefully structured? See below and attached. Otherwise I'll just continue to fill in the further phases...
More importantly - gas clathrates may be found in their natural form on icy NEOs.......... "In the realm of planetary science, the study helps explain how some...
Jim, You also wrote: "Wherever the electricity for the MET comes from it can not come from the water used as reaction mass. We could save the water output of...
