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2d ago

Slider Straw, a Lunar Sling Concept

Picking up from my last post on lunar slings, the “conveyor” presents an alternative that is a pure tradeoff. If you have stronger…

Slider Straw, a Lunar Sling Concept

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3d ago

Lunar Sling vs Conveyor Designs

To get mass off the moon and into orbit, we can rotate a central structure and extend a tether out from it. This has been written about in…

Lunar Sling vs Conveyor Designs

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3d ago

Lunar Hill for Slings to Orbit

Last post I gave a few potential sites for a mass sling to orbit. For this, I was using 50g acceleration of the payload to LLO as a design…

Lunar Hill for Slings to Orbit

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5d ago

Lunar Equator to LLO Mass Launcher Sites

Our moon is dope. It is one of the best astronomical bodies to be next to. If we evolved on Venus, that would suck… it has no good moon…

Lunar Equator to LLO Mass Launcher Sites

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Nov 6

Conveyor-Belt Lunar Mass Sling

After diving deeper into the literature on lunar slings (devices that use tethers to throw payloads into lunar orbit), I have hit on a…

Conveyor-Belt Lunar Mass Sling

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Nov 3

Lunar Slings, the Go-Kart Version

Plastic spoons, cardboard, rubber bands, and balsa wood strewn over the floor, the smell of hot glue in the air — recently my kid was…

Lunar Slings, the Go-Kart Version

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Nov 2

My Disposition on Implosion Hydrogen Fusion

My key number from the analysis of my last post was 500 meters. The worst reaction would only work with a fuel ball with a radius that…

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Oct 18

An Orbital Aerocycler Closed Solution

Our dream here is an orbit that makes its own energy. This is obviously possibly from a theoretical standpoint for the Earth-moon system…

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Oct 2

Polar Aerocycler Concept

To this day, my mind remains captivated by the idea of orbital aerocyclers. This is a combination of 2 ideas, both being pretty niche…

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Sep 14

Is Power from Pure-Proton Fusion Possible?

Great ideas need to be a little crazy, but crazy in the right way. I have been down this rabbit hole of asking myself “could we…

Alan Rominger

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Obligatory analytical writing, online participation account for Medium. Engineering, software, books, space, constant daydreaming.

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