Recent content by logicalone2

Before one way missions to Mars (settlement) won't we need to do long duration missions with Mars artificial gravity in LEO? Starship may provide reasonable cost ability to build structure to do this. Orbital Assembly (spin off from Gateway foundation) has some proposals for this. If 3rd...

Red dwarfs are small and potential habitable zone planets will not only be close to their stars. They will also tend to be tidally locked, which means one side will avoid direct effects of flares from sun. So, it seems like you could have habitable planets where one side was habitable and the...

I guess I don't understand. Set their launch requirements and any launch vehicle that meets those requirements that is available can be optionally chosen. I mean if you meet fairing size, maximum forces, launch profile requirements, etc, why do you need multi-year notice. I would think 1 year...

Another silly inference. In 200 years, we will have access to the solar system. Our species is on the cusp of a major evolution now, and who knows what technology will be developed in such an enormous time span. Maybe we will decide to create dyson swarms to more full advantage of the suns...

Personally, I have a bigger issue with ambient light pollution through ridiculous urban lighting schemes. As far as large constellations, they are enabled by having dramatically lowered the cost to place payload in orbit. That lowering of cost will also enable heretofore unaffordable space...

185 year trip? It would not make sense to attempt such a thing. During the course of coming decades there will be new advances that would continuously cut the time and improve payloads, so that such a long lived mission would be obsolete long before its arrival. Voyager was the most advanced...