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OFFICAL LAUNCH SD0101-004 : 04Jan 2011 ...No fireworks, yet, but a chance to share an extraterrestrial future.

A new series of StratoLaunch.com projects, and training for remote piloting

... is perhaps in the hands of “a pinball wizard” of sorts, that can fly an aircraft or spacecraft quickly and accurately on VIRTCH.COM - .. VirtualPRESENCE.BIZ - TELEPRESENCE.BIZ .. Where a pilot sees out of the craft and quickly has to align and attach to it. - and feels through his controls the stresses exerted on the craft. He can also “lower the target” somewhat, with held from “the receiving hook” which can be winched in and out of an aircraft in flight, and there be refuelled. More than 300 tonnes could be thus CARRIED whilst its tanks are filled, air to air.

A 300 tonne kerosene-rocket.com gets only about 4% of its fuel and oxygen mass to orbit - ie, about 12 tonnes. Not as good as LH2 – Liquid Hydrogen which would get about 16 tonnes there.. We plan to get 30 tonnes there -nearly all of which is the empty tanks and engines of a “no-waste” de-facto launch (full tanks, and 3g) from 100Km 2km/sec VulcanHelp.com – a rocket tanker converted bib bomber in which 5 thrill seekers can ride up to 300Km high, and safely return... mostly.. ;-) A ballet of several such remotely piloted craft , attaching to and detaching from the main orbiter re-enter the atmosphere using retro and air braking before hook recapture.... we might have used 1500 tonnes of fuel, but the VulcanHelp.com gets ALL the ascent craft to orbit, or back for re use by skilled remote pilots

TripleUse is the motto at UnitedSpaceAgency ! these large tanks become a habitable space. Large Sections screw together, more details on StratoLaunch.com shortly. 0401-011

Help Wanted

A good part of www.SavingThePla.net is to have “others” living “elsewhere” - and to clean up the increasing hazards of space junk.

Www.FineAnswers.com I have, to many of the innovations needed to ensure humankind's survival – but I need skilled people to make this a reality.

Dick Smith – where are you?

Legal framework, company register?

Game Designers

men over 50.

paraplegics

Crew, emigration and citizenship

People under 50 should be enjoying the earth. Once living in low gravity for extended periods, returning to earth may not be possible without severe fitness training.those emigrating or as crew should have no reason to return there – no offsprings or dependants to be left behind. Paying guests or Visitors OK

keen Game players can learn how to fly a simulator, then fly a model, then fly the real thing! On TheVirtch.com , of course

A falcon can fly in a wind tunnel , with VR glasses or tracking a real model (with food) steered in response to the hook's flight path. Very fast aquisition!

Models need to be made – I'll supply liquid oxygen cartridges . But most importantly, international relations. Kevin@Rudd.us to the helm...answer your mail please.

02:34 … all for today...

UnitedSpaceAgency.com is NOT an "Exclusively (or primarily) USA" "club", (though USA is not excluded, and their help and company welcome, so long as they don't bring guns with them...!

This website, the DESIGNS and most of the linked websites are controlled by Lord Oxford (©) on a shoestring budget from Piggabeen, Australia, with plans to include all in humankind's greatest expeditions (Sun 11Feb007) -Update 20-09-2008.. (London)

The present system of getting to space depends entirely on rockets and is only about 1% efficient - a cargo launch vehicle to deliver 7 tonnes to LEO (Low Earth Orbit) weighs about 700 tonnes at blast off and costs US$21million (soviet or chinese launch). This represents US$3,000/Kg. I can do better, AND I can live with that for now.

GravSat.com

GravSat Proto2, (above) is a proposed "first base" or "first step" on a semi-commercial basis to get human's stalled access to space back on track, as it was FOURTY years ago, when I was 21 .

GravSat Proto 1

The cutaway of main disk of Gravsat Proto 1 (above) has been increased by adding deck 2, 2.5Metres extra on the radius "below" deck 1 and hub shown. for the same spin rate, we get about 0.2G (or a fifth of normal gravity) for better "normal" comforts. with its full width cabins (4 metres) and circumference of 54 metres 16 "twin share" rooms 4 x3 metres are available on each of the 2 disks' lower decks, theoretically accommodating 64 people with deck 1 rooms (0.1G, shown above) for other uses... continued on GravSat.com

UnitedSpaceAgency continued .. Although international PR has been enhanced by taking up "approved semi-tourist astronauts" (and giving them "Astronaut" badges) there are no SERIOUS plans for getting ordinary people to orbit, though a handful of very rich people have bought seats on some Russian launches to a non-tourist "svientific" and political facility grandly called ISS "The International Space Station".. well, There are better ways to do this, and better places to go, for better reasons, and "More pressing problems" both in orbit and on the ground.

The HIGH POLLUTION HAZARD US SPACE SHUTTLE NA7A.COM costs a lot more,(about US$150million for 30 tonnes) and whilst in orbit exposes a large area of ceramic surfaces to (Mainly man-made) micro debris in LEO further polluting those orbits. This needs to be cleaned up and THIS "USA" (United Space Agency) plans to do so, including several PLUTONIUM power packs still orbitting from the former USSR's "Cosmos" series spy satellites, conveniently "forgotten" for now

Although the "sexiest" or most appealing "human face" of the project, "other than that" it should not be the first, but "because of that" it perhaps should be, as it is not an overly expensive showpiece, and offers a safe refuge for other "commercial" space users, and, to some extent, a supply base / "farm" and refuge. a second or extra disks can expand on this, and resupply trips to ISS, that currently take waste in the empty eurospace upcraft, and wastefully crash it back to earth can be used, recycled to GOOD effect, even if only as mass shielding, which otherwise has to be brought from Earth at between $3million and $10million a tonne.

GETTING TO GravSat

GravSat is initially a LEO-PORT or "Low Earth Orbit" Port - a transfer place for materials and cargo, to and from Earth, and to and from Higher orbit, and for commercial reasons is kept close (10-100Km) to ISS, as we are 100% dependant on other peoples boosters and traffic to begin with, and can deal with USA, Russia, Europe, Japan, China or other spacefarers there.

Our second requirement is for a human or cargo transfer module, using PlasmaTugs, and A used "Jules Verne" Eurospace resupply vessel - a good base to work from, particularly as these have a standardized access hatch, and are usually discarded after a single trip. we would rebuild and reconfigure it by Telechir / PlasmaTug operations in LEO, toughening up the skin and removing hefty bits for GravSat's mass shielding and frail bits for orbit protection

these Telechir / Plasma-Tugs combination are a principal construction and development tool for much of the LEO (and onward) systems. Sending man-shaped Spacesuits (with a man in them) into unprotected sunlight (or shadow) is unnecessary, and very risky, and we plan to AVOID it! Even in the limited space of Gravsat Proto there is a good zero gravity space (7m diameter x4m wide) to play safely in zero gravity without a bulky suit, and with little danger

Orbital Transfers may precede any attempt at the high development cost and time of a Ground to Orbit boosting System, as these CAN be purchased, though at high cost. We're ready to work with anyones up craft, and recover and recycle them, but are aware that any craft capable of getting to LEO-Port is capable of being an ICBM, so we'd welcome international scrutiny on our own launches, and prefer it for ALL launches. We are STRICTLY NON-MILITARY.

If and/or when we do develop ground to LEO boosting, we do it in basically 3 main stages, all of which are "portable" - we do not have, or need a fixed launch base, just some assembly and storage areas at a good airport or airports, and a few slightly modified commercial jet aircraft. and CRYOGENIC refuelling aircraft which form the first stage, conventionally fuelled (JP4 jet fuel)

the THIRD stage is launched from about 100Km AMSL and 4Km/sec downrange speed, near the equator, and drops no "bits" from theron to LEO-Port where it is unloaded and FULLY re-cycled. VERY expensive parts (defined as more than $10,000/Kg) are seperated and packed for later return to earth, the rest is re-used, re-manufactured or used as mass shielding. For this reason we are happy to have a stronger and heavier than usual fuel tank and hull.

The SECOND stage MAY have some wings and heat shielding for re-entry at a "moderate" 4.5Km/sec (Mach 13) and/or may have a cooling and powered support/steering/retro system to prolong the deceleration time in thin air at 50Km before deploying parachutes/rogallo or other support systems prior to air to air recapture, for re-use

Both the second and third stages (either together, or seperately) are either unfuelled or only partly fuelled (hydrogen only) and are lifted atop one or two adapted airliners. In flight, they are then lifted from atop that lift aircraft by another aircraft (or aircrafts) by supercord cables, and joined and fuelled ready for launch from suspension below that or those aircraft. The idea is to get as high as possible using big wings, possibly even using some rocket motors, or added OXYGEN or air to the supporting aircraft's engines to achieve this. if the support aircraft can handle a mach3 or so re-entry at 30Km or so, that's even better - beyond that, wings and jets become ineffective, but straight out rockets start to work much better. seperation and launch procedure commences, with the TWO recovery craft in place for stage 2 re-capture. one from above, to capture or tow, and one below to receive the topload for rerturn to an airport for re-use.

Top-Down Approach

PRESUMING that launches can be purchased, the Top-Down Approach is preferred. where "the top" is the top of the gravity well, from which we want to "draw water" so to speak. there is almost unlimited energy in near space, but not a lot of mass. However, Earth is extremely lucky to have such a big moon so close, and it is a MAJOR ASSET that makes a much better system of getting "up" possible, just as standing at a wellhead with a rope and bucket makes drawing water easier than climbing up and down the hole to fill up the bucket

Some help from an astrophysicist would be handy to calculate the exact figures, but Low LUNAR orbit is about 1Km/sec, rather than Earth's 7.5Km/sec - and it lacks an atmosphere of any substance (amount) so Low Lunar Orbit is down to one metre, if needs be. thats only rifle bullet velocity, and allows various non-rocket means of lifting to orbit. notably, Rotating-Tethers - and these allow EXCHANGE of masses and velocities to orbits. That is, "pick some mass up at velocity (times mass), and put some down at velocity (times mass)" so this allows us not only to LAND without using rockets (much) but also to "take off" without using rockets (much). if nothing else, this means we could use the much more mass effective plasma (or Ion) drive to boost the LLO (Low Lunar Orbit) tether craft over a "long" period to periodically lift mass from the moon to orbit, and then down Earth's (much bigger) gravity well

A "pumping orbit" can also supply inertial energy to the "top" of this system. The "Lunar Pumping Orbit" extracts inertial energy from the earth-moon system by going "Behind" the orbit of the moon (not behind the moon, behind its moving place in orbit) both "Up" and "Down" relative to Earth, then around the Earth (or a loop "behind" earth's orbit around the sun to pick up more inertial energy from that orbit) to return at greater velocity, and that excess velocity is transferred via a series of Rotating-Tethers and "slung masses" either to lift from the moon, or to lift from the Earth. Excess velocity can be "dumped" or used to power skip-ships or boost orbits from near Earth and/or its upper atmosphere. The mass that takes this million plus Km journey could be an inhabited gravsat, so long as it stayed clear of the Van-Allen radiation belts, for which gravsat is NOT properly shielded



0209-008 ... to be continued :-)

Now all we need is... United Humans working co-operatively together, Caring for our OnePla.net and for a greater future for all

MISSIONS

1) . . to make the ongoing work AFFORDABLE. means obtaining useful energies and materials for LESS THAN $3,000/Kg. And I describe a number of places and ways to do that. The Moon is the obvious place for both materials AND inertial energy, though the latter can be got from an "Earth-moon pumping orbit" >-MORE->

Outcomes and exits
.. The desired outcomes are many and various, but "Paying off our loans" is EVERYBODIES problem, not just mine !

2) (London, 1908-008.) TOURISM and MOVIE-MAKING may be desirable enough to "pull" some funding, as it is a high priority to get such funding and offer a RETURN for corporate and private investors, where governments are unwilling to spend money other than on themselves and their political power structure. Gravsat #1 is small, but provides several "hotel rooms" for those able to pay over a million dollars a day (twin share) plus "airfares" considerably more than that!. For this reason the initial orbit is likely to be close to ISS until other "human rated" craft come online

I've taken time out to consider, calculate and design GravSat which is an actual orbiting structure of modest size that can SAFELY support humans and crops in an elliptical orbit of 300-900Km in the plane of the ecliptic - or even near to the existing ISS , and either recycle its waste products or pack them in secure tanks for shielding, rather than waste them into burn-up trajectories back to earth. Even NUCLEAR WASTE (which the Cosmos series spy satellites (other than Cosmos 495) ejected into decaying orbits) can be made relatively safe, and their MASS is valuable shielding until we can get something safer at a lesser cost. collecting and safely storing this material should be done ASAP, and we volunteer to do it, for a fee.

Even if we have to pay the MUCH HIGHER COST (US10million dollars a tonne, rather than Russian / chinese US $3million a tonne) of using NASA shuttle launches, the 48 tonnes of shielding and 12 tonnes of craft is still less than 1Bn.US (which is my $50 webserver;-) .. I have several plans for cheaper, more frequent and safer launching and recovery methods, starting from the top down, but it needs funding and management for a TEAM

SpaceFor.Us.. (2805-008) was to begin to describes an alternative... 3 months later, and half a world away ... I should steer this domain in to GravSat.com for now, though I have some terrestial uses for it, which are more pressing in the confines of London than on my hillside in rural Piggabeen, Australia.

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3 years languishing projects...

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Lord Oxford
15 June 2005

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