Aeronautics and astronautics – Spacecraft – Spacecraft formation – orbit – or interplanetary path
Patent
1984-03-12
1988-10-04
Blix, Trygve M.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Spacecraft
Spacecraft formation, orbit, or interplanetary path
244 63, B64G 110
Patent
active
047751207
ABSTRACT:
Greatly reduced cost of extraterrestrial transporation of strong items and materials is obtained through the use of impact into a crash-capturing-containing facility for deceleration. Cargoes from both the Earth and Moon can be cheaply crash-transported to a low earth orbit crash-load-capturing-satellite so that the satellite maintains a somewhat constant low earth orbit. By crash-capturing only lunar materials, the crash-containing satellite can also become a cargo-transporting satellite that travels from low earth orbit and delivers a much greater quantity of materials to a higher earth orbiting station that it started with. By crash-capturing only retrograde highly elliptically orbiting lunar material, that cargo-transporting satellite can be moved from a high earth orbit back to a low earth orbit.
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Blix Trygve M.
Corl Rodney
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