Ron Paul and NASA/Space exploration?

[weatherbill]

life as it is now, is good enough. We don't need IMO, a space program. WHat we need is to come back down to earth and get focused on what need sto be done here....and what needs to be done is for us to get free from this spand out of control government or we are going to wind up with a police state and an economic collapse.......so in light of this, a space program, pardon my english, don't mean shit sherlock. It's time to get focused and we need a new foreign policy!

 

[Tom228]

Where (please cite Article and Section numbers)?

Article 1 Section 8.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress


It's implied if you think about. If Congress can create a army and a navy why can't it create an air force? There's nothing about an air force because it was written in 1787! There fully functioning planes until the 20th century.

As for standing armies, you can have them, but no more than 2 years. But I've come to realize, in this day in age, it's always good to have a standing army just in case something happens.

PS: I shortened the article for obvious reasons

 

[johngr]

Article 1 Section 8.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress


It's implied if you think about. If Congress can create a army and a navy why can't it create an air force? There's nothing about an air force because it was written in 1787! There fully functioning planes until the 20th century.

If you want to have an air force (constitutionally), it takes an amendment. The constitution does not provide for space exploration.

As for standing armies, you can have them, but no more than 2 years. But I've come to realize, in this day in age, it's always good to have a standing army just in case something happens.

To have a standing army is to ignore the one of the reason the US were founded, the founders' explicit advice and the plain intent of section 8. The dangers to liberties from tyrants and emperors (who invariably turn their armies on their own citizens) are far greater than those of foreign foes. When was the last time Switzerland was attacked? Anyone who tried to attack and occupy a US with a gun culture and 50 independent militias would have their asses handed to them. A standing army is only necessary for empire.

 

[johngr]

Be careful who you say that to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQKxAqpjroo

That was pretty funny. Whether he's right or not, his ambush journalism techniques leave something to be desired at times. Watch the interview he did with Ed Mitchell, though (one of the few he astronauts interviewed who seems to have a few brain cells left). To me he shows clear conscience of guilt.

 

[Futurity]

I think NASA is not worth a penny. It seems they have technological recession, not progression. We already have been to the moon and now they try it do to it again. I mean seriously it is not that hard to do, just use the technology from previous missions...

 

[Tom228]

All human beings are curious, and space just happens to be one of those things we want to know more about. It's human nature, we want to know, we want to learn.

"The unexamined life is not worth living." ~Socrates

johngr,

Why are you so against space exploration?

And fine, lets scrap our air force and wait for a Constitutional amendment.

Switzerland was never attacked because it has a giant standing army! Every person in Switz, has to do military service.Hitler never attacked them because he knew attcking Switz. would be to costly.

 

[Paulfan05]

I hope he keeps NASA going, the technology developed by them makes our economy and military stronger, personally I would like a president to fund it even more, could we have won the old space race without it? Bring it back to its previous glory

 

[therealjjj77]

I hope he keeps NASA going, the technology developed by them makes our economy and military stronger, personally I would like a president to fund it even more, could we have won the old space race without it? Bring it back to its previous glory

Why not leave it in the private sector? Does space exploration HAVE to be a federal government activity?

I think the technology would develop much faster in the private sector.

Is computer technology development headed by the government? What about any other technology?

 

[phoenixrising]

uh-oh....somethings 2 antagonistic here again........if this were in hot topics i wouldn't think twice...yet campaign?

back to work everyone.........

 

[trispear]

Ron Paul will have enough to worry about - NASA isn't high on his list to cut or promote.

(One of the things holding NASA back isn't its budget but the current shuttle it has been forced to keep due to external forces/lobbies/interest_groups. It's a hodgepodge compromise desigin that has been a disaster - 2x already - and is a fiscal nightmare. They are moving onto better and hopefully a simpler, more elegant design.)

 

[NeoconPaulsupporter]

Why the hell would we need an amendment to have an airforce? Do weed need an amendment to have tanks or jeeps? Why would we need an amendment so military personell could fly jets then?

 

[amistybleu]

This nation grew by leaps and bounds surpassing nations with thousands of years under thier belts through FREE MARKETS and a constitution that allowed for prosperity by the people, now we are slaves to the FED and mega corporations that steal our wealth.

The answer is through free markets we would already have colonies on Mars and cheap space travel for all.

 

[carpe liberatis]

Anyone with half a brain knows that in this day and age if we really needed an Army for a good cause there is no way we are going to get enough people, and train them in all areas needed to fight an effective war in a short amount of time, it would take years with how sophisticated things are today. Trust me I know from being in the military myself. Not to mention there would be no good Officers or NCO's to lead. You can not create an effective military out of thin air, it must be continuous. According to that clause we don't need an Air Force, looks like I am out of a job.

This falls under the term "changin times" that I posted in another thread. With todays technological warfare, NOT having an army to at least SOME degree of adequacy prepared and trained is not only irresponsible it's just down right stupid.

 

[carpe liberatis]

I think NASA is not worth a penny. It seems they have technological recession, not progression. We already have been to the moon and now they try it do to it again. I mean seriously it is not that hard to do, just use the technology from previous missions...

You seem to have an incredibly profound understanding of the forces involved in sending a rocket to the moon.

Those NASCAR people could probably save tons of cash if they just used the same tires over and over again!

 

[angelatc]

You seem to have an incredibly profound understanding of the forces involved in sending a rocket to the moon.

Those NASCAR people could probably save tons of cash if they just used the same tires over and over again!

There is more computer power available on a 10 year old laptop than was involved in running the first moon mission.

Makes me wonder what they're going to do up there this time.

 

[XNavyNuke]

From this weeks Space Review:

Where the candidates stand on space

Congressman Ron Paul, who has attracted some voter support, particularly in New Hampshire, has not talked about space policy during this campaign, but did in 1988 when he was the Libertarian Party nominee. At that time he was critical of the lack of progress NASA had achieved over the previous two decades. “NASA has cost our nation a full twenty years in space development, twenty years that has seen the Soviet Union surpass us to an extent that may well be irreparable,” he states in a position paper from that 1988 campaign (one that apparently did not foresee the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union.) “It is inconceivable that a private firm could have committed such follies and survived. NASA deserves no better.”

Paul, who was not in Congress during that 1988 campaign, has been in Congress for over a decade now (he previously served in the House in two periods from the mid 1970s through the mid 1980s), in a district that includes some Houston suburbs near the Johnson Space Center. When the House passed its version of a NASA authorization bill in 2005, one of the few roll call votes in recent years on space-specific legislation, Paul did not cast a vote. He did, though, vote in favor of the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act (HR 5382) in a critical November 2004 vote after being the only member to oppose an earlier version of the bill that March.

FYI

XNN

 

[Young_Apprentice]

I saw an interview a few months ago where Paul said NASA is very low on his list of priorities, since its budget is low compared to so many other things. But it seems like it won't be too long--so long as government doesn't interfere--till prvate companies start surpassing NASA anyways.

 

[alex_trebek]

He would probably privitize the industry. The recent competition to build a space vehicle proved the free market is capable of accomplishing these tasks. There are more options than the two presented earlier, that is government funded NASA, or independently funded NASA.

When you look into it, the space program has sucked up a lot of money. When the space shuttle was presented to congress, NASA told them that it would pay for itself and actually earn money for the federal government. NASA basically promised that the each shuttle would make multiple flights per year, and earn money by putting satellites into orbit. NASA basically said the space shuttle would make space flight as common as jet flight. Yet obviously none of this happened. Instead the program sucked up a lot of money, and companies paid other agencies to put satellites into orbit because they charged far less.

I say privitize the space industry, it will be quicker, less costly, and more efficient.

P.S.
The vehicle that won the space competition was built by Virgin for 20 million. It costs about 60 million to launch the space shuttle.

 

[NASA supporter]

:: Space doesn't get the attention it should. Although I
:: oppose too many layers of bureaucracy, I have never thought
:: that the people at NASA (as a whole) should be completely
:: dissolved in favor of complete privatization, but I do think
:: that the most important focus for NASA should be the
:: cheapest earth-to-orbit technology possible. If NASA does
:: THAT, then private industry has a better shot at mining
:: the asteroids.

:: The Mars, Moon gravity fields are too strong for es-
:: tablishing a supply route to the asteroids; Europa and
:: Ganymede would be a better source of "quick and dirty"
:: water ice - Callisto would require too much drilling and
:: filtration. Europa would therefore require less involve-
:: ment in the extraction process. some wasted effort to
:: marginalize the already bankrupt industrial standard of
:: earth-to-orbit technology with the Mars-to-Jupiter-belt
:: non-metallic asteroids.

: Apparently you didn't bother to look, because here it is:
:
: http://www.islandone.org/Politics/LP.space-dom.html
:

I've already seen that link. It was quite a way back
when he said that. Times have changed dramatically over
simple text posts. In fact, there is a contemporary
blogsite devoted to space enthusiasts for Ron Paul that
seems to be a little more open ended:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=93269

:: Space doesn't get the attention it should. Although I
:: oppose too many layers of bureaucracy, I have never
:: thought that the people at NASA (as a whole) should be
:: completely dissolved in favor of complete privatization,
:: but I do think that the most important focus for NASA
:: should be the cheapest earth-to-orbit technology possible.

: Even if it doesn't work?

Uh, COTS is supposed to be a progenitor for all that *will*
work towards forming a "healthier" space infrastructure.

:: If NASA does THAT, then private industry has a better shot
:: at mining the asteroids.

: Dream on.

Have faith

The boaster says:

: Writing my position paper was more patriotic than anything
: you've done besides pay taxes for a couple of wars that
: should never have occurred.

Since you can't make an intelligent connection with intel-
ligent scientific persuasive ability, you resort to
hostility and invalidation for no apparent reason.

I must conclude that you're clueless, or must remain
that way because you are the type of person who has no
free will. I believe that you have been snared by forces
that are beyond your ability to comprehend where your
true potential lies. You are being manipulated by evil
forces, because I can see who your demons are.

Maybe you need to get exorcised.

Just because you *think* you are more successful, doesn't
mean that you are the least bit intelligent - it might
even mean that you know a lot more successful, unintelligent
people. In fact, I'll bet that you're probably Luciferian.

Why do I say that?

Because Space Station Freedom is "Luciferian", and if any-
thing from so-called COTS proposal has to dock there, it
too is infected with Luciferianism:

"The new International Space Station, built jointly by Russia
and the United States, has the signature of the satanic anti-
christ all over it. It is designed to watch and control all
of the earth and its inhabitants and will begin operation in
the year 2000. (8) There will be a three-member crew taking
up residence in the space station and they will be orbiting
at 240 miles. (9) In occult numerology, 240 is read as 24
and is reduced to four sixes or 6666. I will now quote di-
rectly from the statements released regarding some of the
specifications of the clandestine craft. "The Unity module
has a diameter of 18 feet. There were half a dozen hatches
for the crew to open from one end of the station to the other,
each requiring its own procedure for opening. Zarya, a mas-
sive power station, where electricity generated by solar-pan-
eled wings is stored in six large batteries, had only a narrow
hallway running from end to end, its walls painted a somber
green and yellow. There was barely room for Endeavour's six
crew members to gather in Zarya. Endeavour's six-member crew
began assembling the first two elements of the 60 billion dol-
lar science outpost on Sunday, December 6th.

Did you notice all of the sixes? The module is 18 feet in
diameter (3 sixes =18), there are 6 hatches, 6 batteries to
store solar power, and there were 6 crew members, who worked
to assemble the 60 billion dollar science outpost on December
6th. This was accomplished on a Sunday, the 6th day of the
12th month of the year. Again, in occult numerology the num-
ber 12 is reduced to two sixes. Thus, December 6th in the
occultic numerology is 666. We must also consider that the
three men who are to man this spy and control station in the
year 2000 must interact and work with all of the components
of sixes. Three men operating 6 hatches, 6 batteries and so
on. Thus, the whole contraption has Satan's 666 signature
all over it."

(ref. http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/1999/Jan99.html)

These facts make the space station "possessed" as far as
I'm concerned. The station has to be "possessed" by its
limited design capabilities, just like I've pointed out
in the reference to the R&D space 'facility' on the ISS
being made available to corporations, et. al, who
"do business" with the federal government:

http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=ssff_2.gif

If this is supposed to be some kind of free space market
enterprise, could someone please tell me what happened to
the manufacturing facility? These people are not doing
business with the God of heaven, they're doing business
with a reprobated, false economy of humanists.

We need to change the principality back to Jesus Christ.
We need to anoint the doors, handles, and hatches with
blessed oil. We need a national day of prayer for the
space station and the astronauts inside it.

That is only the beginning. We have to do the same thing
to anything that goes into orbit. Furthermore, the
Senate, Congress, and American people need to pray for the
healing of the American economy, and the healing of the
American family.

I'm finished here, but that's my gut feeling. It's high
time Americans stop pretending about someone else accom-
plishing something on behalf of whatever system seems to
be goading everybody else as "observers", and start
envisioning their own success OUTSIDE OF THE ECONOMY
WE HAPPEN TO FIND OURSELVES IN.

That kind of economy is too manipulating.

Any candidate now running for office will always promise,
but when elected, will never subscribe to such a ridiculous
exploration such as would be for just scientific readings,
rather than ship-to-base or even ship-to-ship rendezvous.

To look at some benefit to this kind of use for asteroid
exploration is to invent a "cop out" for mining
PRECIOUS METAL on the REAL METALLIC ASTEROIDS, or even
"break into" the Mars-to-Jupiter-belt non-metallic asteroids
(on the condition that it becomes INCLUDED with a Mars or
Jupiter moon mission of some kind). However, most of the
METALLIC asteroids are the inner belt ATENS type; a ship
traveling between the outer belt and inner belt asteroids
would have quite a distance to cover - nearly 18 light
minutes or 780 light seconds = 323,775,854.64 kilometers,
assuming a straight-line path (which most likely is not
the case).

However, as said before, there are no gravity wells to
contend with, and the propulsion systems on these types
of vessels would make for much better "cargo" type vessels
(for delivery of raw materials back to earth orbit).

The whole point of visiting the asteroids, IMO, is for
the raw material needs and uses for a kind of superinfra-
structure of space for the arrival and departure of space
miners and facilitators.

To me, the issue is not whether we should be involved in
studying the extraterrestrial geographies of the Martian
landscape, or building observation posts on the moon,
when there doesn't seem to be any tangible asset to
build upon except "territory". That "territory" of the
moon, mars, or any other large body is probably margin-
alized to a much greater degree for providing life support
as an asteroid would be, because each time the life support
"expendables" get delivered, there are the gravity wells
to contend with, as opposed to the nearly gravity-free
voyages to the asteroids.

The reward HAS TO BE more than just for "pictures"
or "travel". Something has to be "brought back" when the
expendables get delivered, so it can be sent back to
earth orbit for further processing. Naturally, a certain
amount of equity would build up for the greatest producers
of raw materials. The asteroid miners' equipment and
instrument operators may find themselves being trained for
an upwardly-mobile career that would send them to strange
places like Europa or Ganymede for a new career in life
support facility production centers.

Extraterrestrial exploration represents the turning point
for western civilization. If we don't do it now, we will
cave from within or become taken over by foreign interests.
The U.S. must lead, follow, or get out of the way of
becoming a producer of new civilizations in which to
prosper. If our God-given talents aren't exercised soon,
we will surely die as a species of explorers, just as
every civilization seems to have enlarged its own problems
with infighting and blood wars, when its borders could
never continue to grow beyond the limited beliefs of
its own "believers".

I have seen the COTS proposal written by NASA's "Thomas
Lee Elfritz" and I know that this proposal is very much
worth supporting. It tackles the problem of much cheaper
earth-to-orbit technology, and I would really like it if
some nationally supporting agenda could address the issue
of where we are going as a people of America, if we don't
begin to look beyond our own borders, because at this very
important time, we are looking to establish orbital and
extraterrestrial markets that can attract the type of
entrepreneurs that America, at one time in our history,
became famous for.

Once an agenda becomes set in concrete, there should be
absolutely no variance between parties as to what was
originally agreed upon, if we use some kind of no-fault
funding program. All the most ambitious projects should
receive priority status for funding - with the word
"ambitious" focused entirely on "drawing in" a continually
upwardly-mobile body of explorer/technocrats into the
"fold" for training and/or support of the primary agenda.

The "primary agenda" is to clear the legal and market path
for the largest earth-to-orbit jobs market in history,
bootstrapping a large body of extraterrestrial private
merchant marines and earth-to-orbit vessels w/satellite
construction centers for the fabrication of additional
propulsion drives, vessels, and launch facilities.

Right off the space station, a nuclear pulsed
"freighter" becomes assembled utilizing modularized
components using material specialists, who would assist
in the research, acquisition, and post-design modular-
ization of components for both the power satellite
construction center and cargo vessel. Since the
"Center" as it is called is a place where much of the
actual construction for the cargo vessel takes place,
some provision for human living quarters, or "habitcons"
must be worked out so that the first few people that
arrive must be able to work inside an inflatable "bubble"
with ceramic/steel framing surrounding the core. See:

http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=bladder.GIF

The core "bubble with ceramic/steel frame" should be as-
sembled, with fully functional core "habitcons" in under
100 man hours time. The core consists of an inflatable
toroidal bladder that is restrained against expansion
by a web of straps. The straps are attached to a rigid
ceramic/steel frame using clevice/pin(s) on the internal
circumference. Four men, working 25 hours in a weeks
time, should have the core project completed and ready
for expansion into the construction center. Once the
core is complete, a new shuttle arrives with more
modules for construction, which are "unpacked" and as-
sembled on to the core by a crew of four men. The ex-
panded core now includes a cargo bay storage area with
a cryogenic welding supply system in place, as well as
the habitcons with (4) potable water temperature control-
led stowages (one for each man). Now the center be-
comes dependent on the shuttle to deliver replenishment
food, water, and air, as well as additional modules for con-
struction of the cargo vessel fuselage, fuel cells, etc.

Here is an idea for a cryogenic storage facility:

http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=cryogen_storage_facility.JPG

The cryogen tank is located outside the main hull, and
is attached to a cryogen recieving frame. Stainless
steel piping is used, with the exception of a pressure-
building coil. ROV valves are used in two liquid phase
lines. CDDI temperature sensors transmit data contin-
uously via teleoperation. Pressure sensors monitor a
15psi set point for venting within the cryogen tank
with a transit relief ROV. An ROV shutoff valve al-
lows isolation during offloading, and maintains work-
ing pressure of the inner vessel.

In gas phase two, the piping has multiple use as a gas
phase outlet, pressure building coil return, and trans-
fer pump recirculation line. A sparger, or spraybar,
acts as a line feed from the main fill line. In this
way transfer can occur in any combination of liquid or
gas phase. Uniform cooling of the cryogen supply tank
through the spraybar causes even shrinking and avoids
structural damage to the vessel, supports, or piping.

In the vacuum of deep space, maintaining a hazardous
gas or liquid at specified temperature and pressure re-
quires continuous climatactic control of the variables
that affect hazardous gas and liquid storage and deli-
very systems. Supporting technology for a refining plant
near a mining operation would include accomodating
quantities of gas other than argon (e.g. oxygen, air)
within safety guidelines, fire suppression systems to
allow for the use of oxidizing gases; and larger quanti-
ties of gases and the associated crew time required to
change gas cylinders. Control elements for gas hand-
ling (e.g. mass flow control and venting systems
control), liquid mixing and liquid-flow control capabilities,
power for producing high temperatures, levitation, and
damping should also be considered. Power supply to ES
(ElectroStatic) motor generators are less massive and
collect electrostatic energy using only milliamps of
current. Using space as an insulator, no shorting sparks
between plates allow the user to increase the voltage
hundreds or thousands times higher than in conventional
iron core/copper wire motors. As such, devices like
these could generate trillions of volts for the ampli-
fication of plasma energized devices, such as resonance
pulsed crystals or superconducting coils. Magnetic wave
induction could also be used to focus gamma-rays with
pinpoint accuracy for detection of elements on
asteroids and orbital bodies.

A possible listing of components used in a regolith lab
test process might include the following components:

tanks, dewars
vacuum jacketed piping
valves
heaters
level detectors
compressors
pumps
resistance thermometers
regulators
thermo-control and monitoring

Each of these components is described individually
with its' intended function for the regolith lab ex-
periment. Initially, a 50 foot cannister is filled with
the spectrophotomically analyzed regolith. After the
robotic arm retrieves the cannister into the soils lab
access chamber, the next step is to agitate with car-
bon and cyanide in order to hold the precious metal in
suspension. Low gravity prohibits mixing the regolith
with carbon and soaking with cyanide.

The cannister is emptied into a centrifuge along with
a mixture of carbon and potassium cyanide. Soaking
of the regolith begins, along with centrifuging, to speed
up the reaction process. Potassium cyanide is kept at
low pressure in storage tanks according to specification.

Low Pressure is considered to be below 2000psi. the
working pressure for potassium cyanide would be around
1800. A safe environment for using KCN in a refining op-
eration would limit exposure to less than 100ppm over
the length of the operation. For this reason, specially
modified laboratory suits, breathing apparatus, herme-
tically sealed connections, and high purity liquid and
gas service is required for the soils laboratory
environment.

CGA (Compressed Gas Association) requires a 1.030" -
14RH EXT., with gasket connector for safe service of
valve outlets and connections. A monitor system for
gases provides the actual gas concentration and a-
lerts operators of a potential hazard at the loca-
tion of the sensor/transmitter. Cannister, tank,
pump, valve, piping, and centrifuge components would
consist of mildly corrosive resistant materials such
as aluminum, galvanized steel, stainless steel,
monel, or nickel. For more corrosive environments,
Kel-F or Teflon coated tubing, pyrex, stainless
steel, monel, and nickel components are
more suitable.

Designers are needed for a multitude of responsibil-
ities including a mechanical designer for the robotic
arm, tray-dump handling system, railhead, railcar w/
canopy, railcar elevator storage, spectral tray sta-
tions, rotators, ejectors, compactors, tracking, ro-
botic storage systems, and bore setup. Electrical
designers are required for the bore electrical, DC
conveyor car autostorage and switching, spectro-
graphic scanning, spectral auto-analysis, and tele-
robotics. Fail-safe mechanical and on-site elec-
trical operation must be approved before a telero-
botics system can be fully tested. This means
that a teleoperated override for power systems,
teleoperated robotic replacements, backup TOV's,
TOP's (TeleOperated Valves and Pumps, respectively),
and parallel circuit cryogenic valves and pumps are
installed. During testing, field engineering per-
forms diagnostic checks, using signal analysis
and system response, to check the precision of
programming for sensors, steppers, servos, relays,
valves, and pumps.

Phase I of the entire project results in a coordin-
ated effort between the proper research and acqui-
sition of materials and will result in the efficient
and expedient construction of the power satellite
construction center.

Phase II begins with unpacking and reassembling
modules into an arrangement of cargo vessel mod-
ules, with various modules being vacuum pressure
fitted and locked in place, such as parts of the
fuel cell and fuselage, as well as the propulsion
chamber and supporting structure. Other modular
components, such as the pulse powered ignition
system, are calibrated for pulse timing and feed
into the propulsion chamber.

Phase III assembly of the Orbital GAMS (Geosyn-
chronous Asteroid Mapping Satellite) launching
facility begins with unpacking and reassembling
modules into an arrangement of GAMS facility
modules. Orbital GAMS diagnosticians perform a
variety of duties related to the procurement and
setup of the GAMS flyby satellite, which becomes
launched either from a GAMS launch facility, or
from the completed cargo vessel during the test
launch phase.

The GAMS flyby satellite utilizes a single stage pro-
pulsion system that is designed to propel the GAMS
scanning satellite to rendezvous with the
target asteroid.

Launch facility and cargo vessel delivery systems are
a private enterprise, whereas GAMS delivery from shut-
tle orbit are an incorporation interest venture.

If these components could be made to work correctly,
and a mining expedition resulted in the discovery
of a massive gold or platinum deposit, the result
would be the greatest orbital land rush in the
history of civilization!

We could start with simulations of an actual trans-
missions of SAR-like data from a single server to
pro-GAMS clients, made to order. All that is requir-
ed of the clients is that they are logged in to an
applet server in order to process the raw data that
runs while the client is logged on to the website.
Since data collection takes several weeks to several
months, the amount of data collected must be com-
pared to what the actual frame and time stamped
telemetry data would be on an actual GAMS flyby,
using the Monte Carlo method. This method provides
a mapping technique using virtual geo-modeling for
the asteroid terrain characteristics. The length of the
virtual data telemetry collection period can then be
compressed into a simulated rendition of the full
SAR telemetry stream.

The server program will help to establish an SAR
mockup of what the actual conditions would be for a
GAMS flyby, and would help to create an awareness
or need for such a technology, in the face of increased
interest to space based enterprise.


NASA supporter

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
- Benjamin Disraeli