Boeing's "original" Space Gas Station

gaetanomarano · 2007-10-25 13:28:32

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Rand Simberg reports about the Boeing's Space Gas Station concept in this (September 25, 2007) Popular Mechanics article:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science … 24660.html

however, it looks pretty close to MY (Aug. 12, 2007) article's update about an orbital refuel concept for the ESAS plan:

http://www.gaetanomarano.it/articles/031easyways.html

as explained in this ghostNASA article:

http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/011orbitalrefuel.html

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RedStreak · 2007-10-27 11:07:57

I'm not sure about this. Won't launching this station require plenty of launches to sustain, and until propellant production is established on the Moon everything still comes from Earth. All that'd be done is add an unessicary hitch in the plan.

Personally following the Mars Direct example is a better idea; i.e. send an unmanned lander that days there.

gaetanomarano · 2007-10-27 15:19:15

I'm not sure about this. Won't launching this station require plenty of launches to sustain, and until propellant production is established on the Moon everything still comes from Earth. All that'd be done is add an unessicary hitch in the plan.

clearly, the orbital refuel can work only if the propellents will be launched with very low cost rockets

if that fuel is launched with an AresV the price don't change but just add ome complexity to the flight plan

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publiusr · 2007-11-09 12:45:40

Eliminating assembly eliminates costs.

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