ULA had a workshop recently (I would have loved to attend). Paul Spudis was present, and reports.
5 thoughts on “Cislunar 1000”
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ULA had a workshop recently (I would have loved to attend). Paul Spudis was present, and reports.
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There are some videos on Youtube about this from last year. Different presentation? I don’t necessarily think the order of progress or the rate of progress will be the same as ULA mentions there in their timeline (I suspect the stuff they say would be made in the next 5 years will be made in like 10 or more) and I suspect space tourism will be viable sooner than they mention and space manufacturing will happen after that (large scale space manufacturing at least). I also think space solar power makes more sense for in-space applications than beaming it back to Earth, unless we are talking about specific applications. Say imagine the military wants to set up a remote base someplace, it would be real neat to supply energy at long distances with beaming without cumbersome supply lines uh?
If we can predict the situation 30 years from now then we’ve failed.
We should have so many commercial players involved that nobody could predict the result.
Are we still stuck in cold war mode?
Well you know the saying, plans are useless but planning is essential.
How ’bout a commitment now to send a small fleet of robotic explorer satellites to each one of the Lagrange points? Say one a year for the next 5 years? To do a survey of environmental conditions around useful orbits at each one?
That is a great idea and I would extend it to Mars and other places as well. If these types of probes could be mass produced, they might be cheap enough to put on regular launches. So what if some of them take longer to get to where they are going. It’s a marathon not a sprint.