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#51 Yesterday 13:51:23
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Re: Multi-Ship Expeditions, Starboat & Starship, Other.
A bit of correction for the previous post.
I have the notion that stations where asteroid ores can be processed might exist near the asteroid belt with a 2 Earth years circular orbit, and similarly inside the asteroid belt with 2 Mars years circular orbit.
Cyclers and Semi-Cyclers, with elliptical orbits would then link the plant to its 2X's ring. As propulsive methods would exist, these linking elliptical Cyclers and Sime-Cyclers, would be able to make maneuvers by gravitational passes of there "Parent" planet. Other means of propulsion could come from sunlight or the solar wind. Also, if robot tugs power by electric propulsion could bring materials to these elliptical Cyclers and Semi-Cyclers, then they could have electric propulsions to modify orbits.
So, if you had 365 Stations for the Earth at the 2-year circular orbit, you could give a date name to each one. Say 01-01. Month/Day or Day/Month if you like. If an elliptical Cycler or Semi-Cycler were Phase Tuned to have an aphelion at 01-01, it might propulsively be able to Phase Tune to another one, perhaps an adjacent one by using various means of propulsion.
So, a network of Circular Cyclers, and Elliptical Cyclers and Semi-Cyclers.
The Circular Cyclers could bulk up on materials from small objects from the Asteroid belt and would likely keep a lot of "Tailings" to make their structures from and pass on to the solar exchange system materials of value for sale.
If I have this wrong as a possibility, I would appreciate being corrected.
As I have said as this would be a network of cyclers, humans and some supplies could be exchanged across the network with high propulsion ships. And bulk materials would be exchanged by slow moving electric ships.
This then might weave the Earth/Moon, Mars/Phobos/Deimos in a network involving asteroids of the Maine Belts, and also even terrestrial crossing asteroids.
Materials from terrestrial crossing asteroids may be major contributors to Earth/Moon & Mars/Phobos/Deimos orbits.
While the Terrestrials may receive needed scarce materials, and produce bulk materials like Iron, Aluminum, and Silicon as propellants and for building structure.
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#52 Yesterday 14:23:07
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Re: Multi-Ship Expeditions, Starboat & Starship, Other.
With a network for Earth/Moon and Mars/Phobos/Deimos, and with electric powered freighters all around there would be some hope of dealing with a human occupied ship which missed its transfer from one cycler to another, or to a home planet/moons.
There might be means of getting to another station and also that a freighter might be able to give assistance.
So, a malfunction on a passenger ship trying to get from one station/world to another would have greater hopes of rescue for passengers.
And so freighters might not have humans on board, but might have included into them methods to help humans with life support and propulsion options.
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