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IMO, we're going to have to look at building extremely large yet extremely light interplanetary lightsails at L1, L2, L4 or L5.
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NASA should focus on testing and developing terrestrially and extraterrestrially manufactured lightsails in order to begin exploiting the natural resources of asteroids and in order to transport humans through interplanetary
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The utilization of extraterrestrially manufactured lightsails might solve this problem since they could transport hundreds and even thousands of tonnes to Martian orbit.
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The export of lunar aluminum could could be used to manufacture lightsails that could give us access to asteroid resources that are high in platinum content
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The export of lunar aluminum could could be used to manufacture lightsails that could give us access to asteroid resources that are high in platinum content
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Reusable rockets could transfer the ice into orbit and lightsails could transfer the payload into lunar or Earth orbit.
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And it should be pretty easy to get there if we use cheap extraterrestrially manufactured lightsails as interplanetary transports.
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The first centered on approaches workable through known physics - lightsails, magsails, beamed particle and pellet propulsion, fusion and, to the extent that we might one day learn how to create sufficient quantities of the stuff, antimatter.
Centauri Dreams 2009
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- abandoned L-5 refurbished, brought into low Lunar orbit, provided with lightsails to exert the forces that would keep it on that otherwise unstable path, set spinning again in order to give full Earth weight around its huge circumference.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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- abandoned L-5 refurbished, brought into low Lunar orbit, provided with lightsails to exert the forces that would keep it on that otherwise unstable path, set spinning again in order to give full Earth weight around its huge circumference.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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