/sci/ - Science & Math

If ULA was allowed to develop ACES and propellant depots, our timeline would be almost perfect

>>14796764
based

>>14565756

Wait so shelby is out?

Can we say the d world now?

I'm - I'm gonna say it!

DEPOT

>>12522475
Speaking about fuel deports, Musk should use tankers that can only go up a few more times as fuel deports, or enabling probes to go quick.

>>12490766
>>12490770

What you could do is take a few tankers that have say 10 launches left in a career of 100 launches, then dock a bunch of them together.

It's going to take 6 launches to top up for a Mars mission.

So what you could do is have say 30 launches worth of fuel to go to destinations really quickly.


Even better if you were to build fuel deports with the same tanker assembly line.


How I would colonize mars is send a tunnel boring machine for 20 or 50 ft under ground settlements, not something like 170ft like it is with the NYC subway.

One of your jobs that you could apply for is propellant production in an underground facility. Not only you would produce propellant for a return mission, but for surplus production for things like missions to a Martian moon as well.

Same facility could be used to top up an orbiting Martian fuel depot.

>>12484706
Or what they can do is park a bunch of about to be decommissioned tankers into orbit, then link them up with each other. So you could have 3 or 4 Martian Colonial Transporters worth of fuel being used to send a payload to a destination very quickly. Or use the tankers as fuel depots.

Anyway

First for orbital propellant depots.

>>12347747
only fellow /sfg/ers will understand

>>12294531
DEPOTS
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>>12230990
IT'S

FINALLY

FUCKING

HAPPENING

>>12187364

>>12146466
Can't wait for the first propellant depot to come up, and watch Congress scramble to try to remove it but being unable to.

>>12101648
>We had released a series of papers showing how a depot/refueling architecture would enable a human exploration program using existing (at the time) commercial rockets
Anyone know where those papers are?

Propellant depots.

First for propellant depots.

depots when?

>>11970982
Just post pictures of propellant depots, and it'll scare them off.

>>11901407
Go away, Shelby.

>>11836894
Shoo Shelby.