Automated Transfer Vehicles

On 3/5/11 3:31 PM, Victor Smith wrote:

> I like the tether idea, its an elegant solution that does away with the
> waste of the ATV. Using pellet accelerators for multiple applications
> throughout the Earth-Moon system, though, always makes me think that Id
> hate like hell to be following a craft so powered...might be a rocky road.

Well, yeah. And there oughta be a law that any such system must expel
its reaction mass at at least solar escape velocity, so that it doesn't
become a long-term problem.

Best,
- Joe