Removing at least half of space debris, consisting of large metal objects, could be a cost-effective activity if, first, it becomes raw material, along with other extraterrestrial resources such as regolith, for the production of heat shields which is aimed to return the upper stages… Read More »Space Debris Removal and Exploitation of Lunar Resources — Profitability Perspectives
The article proposes the best options for the placement of complexes designed to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and oceans. Five ways are proposed to reduce energy costs for carbon dioxide capture, using the following factors: extreme currents in the oceans; steady storm winds; zones… Read More »Five Carbon Conquest Projects in Three Natural Elements
“Energy: economics, technology, ecology”, Established: 1983, The journal is published under the direction of Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences About the “MoonTrap” project. The supply technology of the lunar base is optimized at a stage when there is still no use of lunar… Read More »Promising ways of supplying the lunar base // Energy: economics, technology, ecology
The assumption that it is easy to increase the duration of the watch at the bases turned out to be wrong. The light weight of the moon is just as dangerous as complete weightlessness. With low gravity, bone mass is lost, muscles weaken, problems with… Read More »Artificial gravity for a permanent moon base // Energy: economics, technology, ecology
ABSTRACT I The article examines how to utilize free supply of extraterrestrial material potential energy, its conversion into kinetic energy and transfer to ground launched space crafts. Satpush technology which is considered as the subject of the research accelerates air crafts to the first cosmic… Read More »Satpush system: the usage of extraterrestrial potential and kinetic energy supply for space launches
ABSTRACT I The energy supply of research and industrial bases, aircraft and wheeled vehicles on Mars based on aluminum-magnesium energy – the use of metals as fuel suitable for atmospheres from carbon dioxide – is considered. It is beneficial to supply the colonies with metal… Read More »The power engineering of Martian colonies
ABSTRACT I Cosmonautics is primarily aimed at the protection against asteroid and cometary attacks. However the development level of cosmonautics fails to meet the theorists’ requirements. The current scientific and technical trends in the development of space vehicles (SV) with chemical and possibly nuclear rocket… Read More »High-space space vehicles for planetary protection
With interests in establishing a base on the Moon on the rise again, while some look at how to get there, others look at how to stay there – for the long term. Alexander Mayboroda, an advocate for space colonisation, guides us through the technological… Read More »How to build a Moon base cheaply
ABSTRACT I Variants of a centrifuge-shaped lunar base providing Earth’s gravity are considered. The best variant is chosen. Transportable parts of the base have minimum weight and easily minimized size. Possible indivisible parts of a centrifuge can weight 1 tone, given that the whole weight… Read More »A long-term Lunar base with artificial gravity and minimum weight design
Abstract. The research is devoted to the development of a low-cost technology for transporting goods from Earth to the Moon, to other space objects (such as asteroids, Mars satellites and artiΫicial satellites) and in the opposite direction. The subject of the study was the technology… Read More »Low-cost technology for cargo delivery to natural and artificial satellites