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Downloadable Games Free Screensavers. Whack-a-mole type game where you shoot aliens that pop out of craters and UFOs flying around. Stacks Compete to knock active (green) blocks from the stack before your opponent. Lander 2 - Lunar Rescue Lift off from the lunar base and help save people by finding them and bringing them back.
Synopsis of BusinessModel
Use mass produced disposable one way rockets delivered as neededfrom highly automated factory with mostly carbon components inlunar stages to import cargo from Earth for Lunar customers. Softland robotic cargo lander. Crash land the lunar insertion stageinto receiving crater full of lunar dust. This becomescarbon-carbon ore for sale to carbon processors or perhaps directto retail. Pretty easy to burn carbon to create salable carbondioxide to greenhouse operators. Soft lander carries all of fulsafety margin to surface. Fuel and spacecraft are recycled into theprivate and/or government GLOP (general left over processors) atbest available prices. Cargo delivered to paying customers. A keydriver of the business model will probably be standard industrialengineering in driving the costs down by reinvestment of gross cashflows into producing ever cheaper large volume of the disposablerockets. Key startup issue is how much capital to get started andsustain deliveries to market until net profitability is achieved.<object width='425' height='350'> <param name='movie'value='http://www.youtube.com/v/4MpBsPkr_gM'></param> <embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/4MpBsPkr_gM'type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='425' height='350'></embed> </object> <object width='425'height='350'> <param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/50Fk2Vu1B4s'></param> <embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/50Fk2Vu1B4s'type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='425' height='350'></embed> </object> Perhaps we should consider anautomated warehouse facility. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWb5LlFE69Y
Background ReadingResources
w:Rocket History and theory of operation ofrockets with links to further information.
Imagery of space debris impact, some actual, some simulated orimagined.commons:Space_debris
PossibleTasks/Exercises
Specify a cargo volume and then experiment with loading it withplanned cargo (Bill of Laden or Cargo Manifest). Document yourloading plan with analysis and reasoning regarding flightconstraints and cargo restraints.
Final visual check of loaded STS cargo.
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Gamemission simulation
How many cargo runs should we purchase and how should the cargocontainer be loaded? Youtube presentation of expendable one cargorun rocket. [1]
Select a fixed volume container such as a bunk bed bounded bywalls, a car, a tent, or a garage. Specify a lunar mission for wishyou wish to contract import transportation. For example: Setting upthe first bungalow of a lunar cabin rental business. Userepresentative labeled objects such as boxes, pillows, actualobjects, etc. to pack the simulated cargo container with everythingrequired for the mission and its operators. Document your cargomanifest, analyze the mass distribution and repack for propercenter of mass at center of container, develop first cut ofrequired expendables to keep operators alive while they unpack thecargo container and implement mission, develop detailed step bystep mission checklist. Publish resulting data products here forothers to work with and improve.
When participants get bored with 'paperwork' practice lunarlandings.[2]
Editor's Note; For Developers of Electronic VirtualEnvironment
Perhaps use www.flightgear.org or equivalent to load thespacecraft graphics and create a mission profile for a flightsimulator.
lunar lander simulation[3] If we could findan equivalent open source we may be able to add sprites createdfrom our 3D Solid or Electronic models by creating a still(photograph) and then using GIMP[4] to create the 2Dor 3D sprite to put into the source code and recompile our ownlocalized simulation. Some code tweaks might allow push buttonactivation of segments of the mission profile for a professionalconcept presentation to potential customers.
Workingmodel rocketry.
Estes solid fuel and/or nitrogen/co2 gas cartridge
- Create models of lander and lunar insertion vehicles.A_Hands-On_Introduction_to_Game_Design_and_Production_Processes
- Animation segments of launch, lunar insertion, crash deliveryof insertion stage to ore crater, soft landing at designated cargodelivery site. Load the completed animations at youtube. Need toestablish archive for source models and scene clip renderingfiles.
Above clips needed for concept marketing and sales pitch tocustomer venture teams.
- Once satisfactory animation models are completed, use thevisual data to create metal foundry patterns for aluminum cast ingreen sand. Can either mail patterns to a buddy for casting orproceed to casting yourself.
- Prepare the micro foundry. Green sand pattern holder ... maybejust large enough metal bucket or paint can, do not useplastic.
- Build/acquire proper pour tools. A good stainless steel panworks well. I have tested on standard electric range, someone couldfind out whether a gas stove generates enough heat and temperatureby analysis or actual testing. Be certain kitchen or melt area iswell ventilated ... get some smoke off aluminum cans used recycledfor stock, concentrated breathing is probably not healthy.
- Rehearse pour with buddy if two man job then melt andpoor.
- Cut away extra and buff/grind/file all edges.
- Use drill to create hollows for Estes Rocket engines or coldgas cartridges in Lunar Insertion Stage (Apollo service module) andparachute for soft cargo lander.
Need design for stack assembly and stage separation atapogee.
Need to review safety practices and local legal launchrequirements with local fire department. An aluminum shellpressurized via chemical explosives or compressed gases is anactual rocket engine and if defective becomes a very hazardousbomblet roughly compared to a hand grenade. Metal shrapnel ispotentially lethal. No experimentation with these homemade itemsshould be undertaken until a responsible adult has reviewed allsafety requirements (too be developed) and complied with allapplicable regulation.
Waste disposal - Green sand is a mixture of oil and sand whichshould be disposed of ....how? Perhaps a burn barrel or locallandfill.
- Best - Store/mothball foundry until needed again.
- Acceptable - Public landfill equipped to incinerate orotherwise handle oil contaminated materials.
- Acceptable? - Burn to avoid groundwater contamination.
PreliminaryTechnical Specification and Pricing
Let's try some work orders for analysis purposes, cargos one wayto moon. Customer must fit their cargo into a standard cube of..... what volume? What is the mass distribution delivered to moonfor recycling ... critical resources such as carbon, ch4, flightcontrol computers, etc. Basically we need some top level trade offstudies (trades, as sometime called in U.S. aerospace milspeak) afew data point (parameter set) estimates will do to start businesscashflow calculations. Where are the sweet spots where we can makemoney? It will depend on markets and competitors and many otherfactors but we need to start getting feel for the problems somehow.What other businesses and technologies must exist for our plan towork and when are they available. Cannot afford to have a fewbillion in borrowed capital sitting around idle costing us 10 to 20percent expense while we can only recover on average 12-15 percentin diversified stock portfolios or funds.
Mass (kg) Price(million dollars) Volume (cubic meters) SalvageValue(dollars projected from mass flow demands
10,000 100 3 cubic meters 20 million
Competitors
NASA test of xenon ion thruster.
- LEO based plasma drive tugs which use LLOX (Lunar liquidoxygen) for slow cheap freight anywhere in cisLunar space. Russianshave used plasma thrusters extensively in flight operations whichpotentially could use LLOX as main propellant.[5]
- Space tether systems expanding into Solar System from LEO.[6]