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the Solar-Thruster-Sailor Site, featuring lightweight spacecrafts based
on Outer
Thruster Rings which carry mostly
electric low thrust thrusters (ion or hall for instance) and can take
also and at the same time a solar sail, a payload carrying net and a
docking and payload handling station in form of an Inner
Ring.
This new ring
in ring bending / stringing construction for spacecrafts
doesn't need masts, booms or struts,
so all hassles associated with such breaking prone construction details
are gone. Bending with CNT (Carbon Nanotube) thread allows extremely
lightweight structures which also are tough because of the carbon
nanotube fibers tensile strength while only weighting 1.3 g/ccm.
The Inner Ring
Docking and Payload handling station allows to take in swarms of
spacecrafts, flying containers or other objects making authomatic
docking and yet good maneuvering available. Carrier space crafts and
solar sail / lander combinations for asteroid exploration and mining
are my most favored applications.
STS
- the Solar-Thruster-Sailor, a solar sail with
thruster ring,
WST - the Winch Space Tug to hold objects tight in
it's center with the help of winches
on the Inner Ring.
CST - the Catcher Space Tug using a net to catch
objects and unloding them through pushing into the wished direction.
FSB - the Flying Space Bag to bag in asteroidal or
in space collected materials.
MoPS - the Mobile Power Station
- a space power plant which can move like a space craft and change
applications through replacing it's
central dockable beaming / energy distribution unit. Besides energy
production it could mainly serve as a smelting unit to smelt materials
on asteroids or placed in free space for space processing.
EFO - an Experimental
Flying Object, a gyroscopic craft using a "speed lever" for
physical studies about the theorie of relativity and rotational effects,
RSC - the Rotational Slingshot Catapult, a huge
rotating ring also using a "speed lever" to gain rotational speed and
shoot the payload onto direction to
it's destination.
In Oct. 2002 ESA
started a 50 million-euro intiative DevILS to
develop intelligent, lightweight spacecraft systems that ESA can use on
future missions. That is just what the spacecraft (STS and RSS)
featured on this site could deliver - structures to build up a reusable
cheap in space transport infrastructure.
Solar Thruster Sailor (STS)
--- STS-
German Page
A solar sail held
inside of a thruster ring with belts or CNT stringing, highly navigable
and able to reach highest speeds in space using photon pressure as main
propulsion.
The thrusters serve as steering and second option propulsion devices,
for instance for landing on moons or asteroids and to start from there
again ...
It is also a disc -
like a Flying saucer -, but it has no septum, so it is not exactly the
structure we would envisage as an UFO. Perhaps we should call it KFO
(Known Flying Object).
main
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Outer
Ring - Inner
Ring - comparison
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mass
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Stringing
Net -
advantages
- Fig.1
- thruster
- Fig.2a-2b
- Fig.2c
- Fig.2d
- Fig.3a-3b
- Fig.4a-4c
- Fig.5
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Mini
STS - Mission
Proposal - Micro
STS
Ring Segment
System (RSS) ---
RSS - German Page
A Spacecraft Building
System, able to build large space structures in a fast and simple way.
Such structure could solve some major problems of manned space travel.
For instance room deficiency and missing gravity.
Imagine a large disc
of orders of square-kilometers made of a ring from pipes with strong
carbon belts stretched in between. This disc can carry the payload (for
example rooms, space stations, hotels, solar cells, greenhouses,
fabrication facilities ... ) on both sides without size limitation.
When rotating, just
place the astronauts or inhabitants rooms on a point of the disc with
the appropriate gravity. ...
So you think this
disc-idea is as old as Methusalem? Think twice! -
It is not a gigantic space-craft with walls, just a large ring from
pipes and some belts! With this concept it is possible to generate such
structures fast, with todays technic and with excellent value for the
money.
Launcher
Transport Head (LTH) ---
LTH - German Page
How
do we get it into space?
The Answer: A head
for the launcher tip similar to the ASAP ring for the Ariane V rocket
which makes it possible to transport the RSS-pipes (the ring segments
of the Solar Thruster Sailor are also made from pipes) Outside
of the Launcher - were they are needed when mounted.
Experimental
Flying Object (EFO) ---
EFO - German Page
Space craft with a
thruster ring of more than 10000 m diameter. The thrusters mounted at
the center of the disc provide an theoretical speed lever of 10000 or
more. If we hadn�t the theory of
relativity this craft could spin as fast that
it's outer points reach or pass light
speed.
The EFO is also a gigantic gyroscope as well as an flywheel, bringing
rotational speed and size, orders of magnitude above all gyroscopic
devices. With the absence of friction this is an ideal invention for
rotational studies were concentrating on rotational and gravitational
forces is possible.
Rotational
Slingshot Catapult (RSC) ---
RSC - German Page
A
thruster powered ring which is able to shoot spacecraft and material
with high speeds through space. A space transporter which
doesn't leave his place when
transporting.
catapult
propulsion - speed
lever - force
lever - Mini
STS - Mission
Proposal - Micro
STS - Fig.
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a space craft which
would serve as a space tug. It's light
weight outer ring is driven by electric thrusters ( ion or hall for
instance ). Inside a thruster ring is a net placed which serves as a
device to "catch" space debris for cleaning orbital space from hubris
or to enhance the orbit of satellites.
It is also thought to catch materials throwed through a mass driver for
instance from the moon to moon orbit. Even deflecting asteroids or
comets should be possible with this design.
A space craft which
would serve to collect and transport materials in space for instance
helping transport materials recovered at asteroids.
MoPS could deliver as well beamed energy were needed or be used as a
smelting unit on asteroids or for space processing in free space.
Fig's
Fig.1 - Fig.2a-2b - Fig.2c - Fig.2d - Fig.3a-3b - Fig.4a-4c - Fig.5 - Fig.6 - Fig.7 - Inner Ring
- Flying Ring
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Fig.8 - Fig.8a - Fig.8b - Fig.9 -
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Fig.16
Mobile Thruster Unit -
Fig.17 - Fig.18
Fuelless Steering - Fig.19-21d
Solar Sail Launch System
This are the figures used for the patent
application.
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