[AR] Re: Ozone layer was Re: Removing Coking Deposits
- From: Peter Fairbrother <zenadsl6186@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:01:38 +0100
On 20/09/16 09:03, Uwe Klein wrote:
Am 20.09.2016 um 03:57 schrieb Peter Fairbrother:
The second stages are tanks and an engine/guidance module. Keep the
tanks in orbit, for whatever - tankage, living space, raw material for
smelting - and reenter only the engine/guidance modules, in bunches.
You'd need some method to keep that stash collected in one place.
It might be a good idea to collect the cargoes in one place as well,
which should be in LEO to keep total impulse down: eg for on-orbit
assembly, perhaps better done in LEO than in GEO, or just for
aggregation for transshipment to GEO.
If you are doing on-orbit assembly or aggregation then using a "base"
(or three) in equatorial orbit allows lots and lots of launch windows
with first-orbit rendezvous from an equatorial launch site.
my son currently does his thesis on orbital littering :-)
Most interesting.
Some time ago I thought about a layered approach - something like up to
250 km is free-for-all, 250-300 is military, 300-350 is earth
observation, 350-450 is human activities, 450-500 is something I forgot,
500 plus is unregulated.
The actual numbers and layers are only roughly thought out. And yes, a
cascade in one layer would affect the other layers, so it isn't that
great an idea - though it might have some benefit.
-- Peter Fairbrother
Uwe
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