Google backs private Moon landing, Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a |
Google backs private Moon landing, Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a |
Sep 14 2007, 08:02 AM
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FROM: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6993373.stm
Firms interested in trying for the prize have until the end of 2012 to mount their Moonshot Anyone fancy a crack at this? Cheers Brian -------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."
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Sep 14 2007, 05:14 PM
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Thinking out loud - if you can get to GEO as a piggyback - (not gto...GEO) - then the dV to get to the moon drops - significantly. The TLI is <1km/sec instead of 3km/sec. If you're really cunning about it - maybe even only 900m/sec.
If you can take 2km/sec off the requirement like that - then you get a mass fraction of more like 70%. If someone's prepared to have a 500kg hitch-hike to GEO - you could put as much as 150kg on the surface. Thing is - which kind-soul telecoms company is going to give someone a free lift to GEO..anyone....hmmmm....it's gone quiet Doug |
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