Commercial Feasibility of Tether Based Orbital Transfer for Commercial Satellites, Space Station, and Lunar Base
Bruce Mackenzie Bruce Mackenzie, National Space Society, Mars Foundation, Gr
Mon Jan 22, Wed Jan 24, Mon Jan 29, 12-01:00pm, E40-308
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Review of commercial potential of tethers for transportation in space.
Tethers are strong cables which would hang from a spacecraft or rotate around it. They can be used to boost commercial spacecraft to a higher orbit, at great savings of fuel. And, they can be used to deliver supplies to a space station. Longer term uses are to send materials to and from a Lunar base, Mars, or asteroids. Tethers may
be the key to begin using resources in space, and have near term commercial use boosting small communication satellites
Contact: Bruce Mackenzie, E40-308, (781) 944-7027, BMackenzie@alum.mit.edu
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Mars Base Design Workshop
Bruce Mackenzie
Thu Jan 25, Fri Jan 26, 10am-12:00pm, 1-246
Mon Jan 29, Tue Jan 30, 10am-12:00pm, 1-150
Thu Feb 1, 10am-12:00pm, 66-160
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Try your hand at designing a Mars Base, or a long term Mars settlement. Our main focus will be design issues for an early Mars base constructed from materials made on site. No special experience is needed; but we will be using cad or sketching; and applying principles of architecture, mechanical engineering, civil engineering,
chemistry, and psychology.
Contact: Bruce Mackenzie, (781) 944-7027, BMackenzie@alum.mit.edu
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Mars Settlement Discussion
Bruce Mackenzie Mars Foundation
Thu Jan 25, Tue Jan 30, Thu Feb 1, 12:15-01:00pm, TBD
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Come discuss issues of living in space, especially how to construct and grow the first Mars Settlement. Mars is of special interest because it has all the chemical elements needed to grow food, and manufacture plastics and construction materials. If you are interested, we may get into subjects of interplanetary transportation,
supplies of various materials, Lunar settlement, asteroid utilization, orbital settlements, or go interstellar.
Contact: Bruce Mackenzie, (781) 944-7027, BMackenzie@alum.mit.edu
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Overview of the Mars Homestead Project, First Step to Settlement of Space
Bruce Mackenzie Mars Foundation
Wed Jan 24, 07-09:00pm, 1-132
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Presentation of a proposed Mars Hillside Base. It would be built by a dozen people and automated construction equipment. The estimated cost would be about the same as round trip missions, because the saving in fuel for the return trips can be used to send manufacturing equipment.
Partially designed at MIT by the Mars Homestead team of the Mars Foundation.
Contact: Bruce Mackenzie, (781) 944-7027, BMackenzie@alum.mit.edu
Cosponsor: Mars Society
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