Timeline for Does Mercury have the necessary natural resources to sustain a human colony?
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| Jun 10, 2016 at 21:09 | comment | added | MercuryPlus | Better late than never. . . | |
| May 14, 2015 at 19:34 | comment | added | jamesqf | But if you have stuff outside Earth's gravity well, say a linear accelerator on the moon or bolo systems in orbit, you can launch on a high speed trajectory pretty much any time. | |
| May 5, 2014 at 14:09 | comment | added | MercuryPlus | PEOPLE would need the high-impulse system. Unmanned cargo (which would include instruments to go into the assembled-on-Mercury probes) fly to Mercury by solar sail. The savings is in very reduced mass from Earth because Mercury provides the structure and power systems. Also, the chemical delta-V for launches from Mercury are much less than for Earth launches, suggesting much smaller launchers, less complex facilities and fewer people involved. Cassini to Saturn would have looked very different had it been launched form Mercury. | |
| May 5, 2014 at 13:47 | comment | added | user | Wouldn't using Mercury as a launch site to reach the rest of the solar system imply that you have to get the stuff to Mercury first? What would be the implications of that in terms of launch windows? After all, you do admit at the end that to get from Earth to Mercury we'd need a high-impulse propulsion system with a very light payload. If you have to contend with the Sun's gravity (escape velocity from the Sun is around 30 km/s, isn't it?) then maybe the 11 km/s from Earth aren't so bad? | |
| Apr 30, 2014 at 17:03 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Apr 30, 2014 at 16:48 | history | answered | MercuryPlus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |