Transportation -- of Earth, Lunar and Asteroidal Materials

Docking in lunar orbit, 1969, Apollo 11 lunar lander as photographed from lunar orbiter

Table of Contents:

§ 3.1 Brief overview of transportation

§ 3.2 Theoretical transportation energy requirements

§ 3.2.1 Moving around in the Earth-Moon system
§ 3.2.2 Asteroid retrieval

§ 3.2.2.1 Lunar gravity assists for asteroids
§ 3.2.2.2 Specific asteroid missions

§ 3.2.3 The L1, L2, L4 and L5 "Libration" points

§ 3.3 Near-term vehicles

§ 3.3.1 Chemical rockets

§ 3.3.1.1 Introduction to chemical rocket transportation
§ 3.3.1.2 Asteroidal fuels
§ 3.3.1.3 Lunar fuels
§ 3.3.1.4 Launching the first missions with present day Earth rockets

§ 3.3.2 Steam rockets and asteroids
§ 3.3.3 Electric Propulsion for Inter-Orbital Vehicles
§ 3.3.4 Using Cold-War nuclear missiles to launch peaceful payloads instead
§ 3.3.5 Earth launch by present and emerging launch vehicles

§ 3.4 Mid-term vehicles

§ 3.4.1 Interorbital aerobraking
§ 3.4.2 Interorbital light sails

§ 3.5 Far future vehicles (this section is lowest priority)

§ 3.5.1 Lunar launch mass driver electric "catapult"
§ 3.5.2 All others

§ 3.6 Miscellaneous technical issues

§ 3.6.1 Storability of chemical rocketry propellants

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Transportation :
  Overview
  Theoretical
    Earth-Moon System
    L1,L2,...L5 Libration Points
    Lunar Gravity Assist for Asteroids
    Asteroid Missions
  Vehicles - Nearterm
    Chemical Rockets
    Electric Interorbital
      Ionic MicroThrust (EPFL)
  Vehicles Midterm
    Aerobraking
    Lightsails
    Steam Rockets
    Mass Drivers
  Vehicles - Longterm
  Storability of Propellants
  Earth Launchers
    Russian Soyuz Manned
    Chinese Shenzhou
    SpaceX, Falcon, Elon Musk
    United Space Alliance
    Stratolaunch, Paul Allen, Burt Rutan
    Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos

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