Asteroid captu or whatever

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To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
From: csmyth3025@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:40:57 +0000
Subject: [spacesettlers] Re: Asteroid capture: or whatever

Low cost access to LEO is the first step. With the various commercial

initiatives that are just getting started we may be at the threshold of

starting to work in that direction. In order for this to work, however,

there will have to be an expanding market to serve. Space tourism and

solar power satelites are the most likely market sectors initially. I

don't know what research has been done regarding the processing and

fabrication of high value materials such as crystals or metal alloys

requiring micro-g environments. Have any papers been written on specific

products in this category?

Chris

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "mtmorganism"

>

> Alright, some hard science !

>

The first question, is why would we go, and the strongest arguments we

can summerize are these...>

> ...Energy harvest. solar and later, ring

>

> manufacturing. crystals,drugs, yada yada.

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> The challenge.

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> first is cheap access. expensive for human rated, cheap for freight.

>

> The only way to do this realistically is to go the "Depot" route,

there is no way you can lift manufactured items, and the fuel to move

them around. Gotta build a depot. We are designing one, but i think the

best and cheapest is here. "Quicklaunch"...