[ExI] Lack of interest (solar power from the Moon)

Sun May 18 20:49:30 UTC 2008

On Sunday 18 May 2008, Amara Graps wrote:
> Regarding solar power from the Moon, I've given this link here before
> (the most recently in ApriL) and to the wta-talk list a couple of
> times too. There is a lot of good information and data and discussion
> and plans regarding exactly what Keith was talking about. (I believe
> that he's seen this already.) It came out of conversations with some
> of my former colleagues at the Planetary Science Institute, and I
> asked their permission to post what they said in the comment section
> of Clifford's PBS wiredscience blog:

So since Keith provided some links, here are some more from my 
collection. The problem is that no matter what, these links remain like 
static content, and what we need is the semantic content so that we can 
assemble the data and compile different plug-and-play solutions, like 
described in: http://heybryan.org/exp.html so on to the SPS links:

http://atlas.estec.esa.int/SPS/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.freemars.org/history/sps.html

Not directly SPS:

Spacecraft design
http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/old_site/academics/akins_laws.html
http://www.asi.org/adb/04/02/
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3e.html
http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/old_site/
http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/publications/pub_index.html
http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/design_lib/design_lib.html
http://www.hellsgeriatrics.co.uk/diy-spacecraft.htm
http://www.contexo.info/DNA_Basics/microsatellite_analysis.htm
http://www.bautforum.com/conspiracy-theories/62859-1st-question-how-apollo-space-craft-cooled.html
http://www.developspace.net/wiki/InterestingLinks
http://www.stmary.ws/physics/97/KGALLAG.HTM
http://web.archive.org/web/20070208102032/http://www.mse.cornell.edu/courses/engri111/space.htm
http://astronauticsnow.com/AstroSpace/
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-851Fall2003/CourseHome/index.htm
http://www.satnews.com/stories2007/4256/
http://spacecraft.sourceforge.net/
http://www.opensourcespacecraft.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/mmm/msx-related/td1701/huebsch.pdf
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/200404/msg00179.html
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/22/1422230
http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/index.html
http://krishl.us/spacecraft/
http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~cdhall/Space/archives/cat_design.html
http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/archive/general/bib.html
http://eo.ucar.edu/staff/dward/sao/ceres/design.htm
http://spacelist.org/design.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_design
http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/old_site/design_lib/SC_design_library.html
http://aerade.cranfield.ac.uk/subject-listing/craft3.html
http://www.bautforum.com/conspiracy-theories/62936-thermal-control-spacecraft.html
http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/archive/subsystems/
http://gps.csr.utexas.edu/sdl/index.html

Teams and Companies
http://www.2xllunarproject.com/Lunar/Welcome.html
http://acme-robotics.org/index.html
http://www.andrews-space.com/
http://wiki.developspace.net//Apophis_Mission_Design_Project
http://www.atk.com/
http://www.lunarrover.org/
http://faamt.org/
http://www.menominee.edu/RocketWebsite/5clans/home.htm
http://www.frozenfury.und.edu/
http://www.harding.edu/wilson/usli.html
http://www.interplanetaryventures.org/
http://www.lasermotive.com/blog/
http://www.teamcringely.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.ae.msstate.edu/~msuslp/spacecowboys/
http://www.odysseymoon.com/
http://www.orbital.com/
http://planetarydefense.blogspot.com/2007/10/estimate-at-submissions-for-planetary.html
http://planetarydefense.blogspot.com/2007/01/georgia-tech-undergraduate-teams.html
http://www.spaceadventures.com/index.cfm
http://www.spacedev.com/
http://www.spacex.com/
http://www.speedupworld.com/
http://xprize.frednet.com/
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/organizations/USLI/index_content.html
http://www.transformspace.com/
http://www.eng.uah.edu/~sli/
http://web.umr.edu/~aavg/usli/index.html
http://unreasonablerocket.blogspot.com/
http://chimaera.usu.edu/usli/index.htm
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/USLI/
http://astrobotictechnology.com/
http://www.xcor.com/

Rocketry
http://armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home
http://www.aarg.org/
http://users.telenet.be/H2O2rocketengine/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_v#Astrodynamics
http://ed-thelen.org/rocket-eq.html
http://www.flometrics.com/rockets/rocket_pump/rocketpump.htm
http://www.interfacecontrol.com/microX/
http://www.nar.org/
http://www.osaerospace.com/
http://www.solar-thruster-sailor.info/index.html
http://www.tripoli.org/
http://www.redyns.com/Projects/WhyBotherLauncher.html
http://www.wfvisser.dds.nl/indexEN.html

Mars
http://spacecraftkits.com/MGSFacts.html
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/
http://www.marspedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://web.mit.edu/mars/
http://www.abc.com.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/1955437.htm
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/zubrin.htm
http://www.marssociety.org/portal

Luna / Our moon
http://www.lunarpedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Introduction

Competitions
http://regolith.csewi.org/
http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=221
http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/apophis_competition/
http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/
http://education.msfc.nasa.gov/docs/127_usli.htm
http://pisces.uhh.hawaii.edu/competitions.php
http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/challenge/competitions.html
http://www.xprize.org/
http://space.xprize.org/lunar-lander-challenge/

Aerospace
http://www.airtoi.com/ljet.htm
http://www.airtoi.nl/turbines.php3
http://web.archive.org/web/19970126103321/http://banzai.apana.org.au/projects/ausroc/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20070410011649/http://www.home.no/andreas.sunnhordvik/English/mechanical/valveless_e.htm
http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/Propulsion/3-how-you-calculate-specific-impulse.html
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ejust/SITCL.html
http://www.pfranc.com/projects/turbine/top.htm
http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://aardvark.co.nz/pjet/
http://www.rcdon.com/
http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/Bishop/
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases_space.html
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/specimp.html

Other random spacetech stuff:
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/
http://www.megazone.org/ANP/biblio.shtml
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A-level_Physics/Cosmology/Models_of_the_known_universe
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1996/astr123.html
http://www.astronomy.net/
http://www.site.uottawa.ca:4321/astronomy/index.html#energy
http://www.site.uottawa.ca:4321/astronomy/index.html#height_table
http://www.astronomynotes.com/
http://www.astronomy.ch/home.html
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/
http://track.sfo.jaxa.jp/spaceops98/contribution/nakayama/nfe_nakayama.html
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3x.html
http://autopilot.sourceforge.net/
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/guide.html
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bga.html
http://bdaugherty.tripod.com/astronomy/berlin.html
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=31134&cid=3347919
http://www.space.edu/projects/book/chapter7.html
http://www.nss.org/settlement/ColoniesInSpace/bibliography.html
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9812046
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=206622&cid=16849502
http://www.developspace.net/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.stecf.org/~ralbrech/amico/papers/albrechtr/albrechtr.html
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/Nowicki/
http://www.astronautix.com/
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMKINZ990E_index_0.html
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Smap.htm
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ejb/faq.html
http://www.gemini.edu/
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://hobbyspace.com/AAdmin/archive/SpecialTopics/Events/2006/XPrizeCup-2006.html
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/Dic/iau-spec.htx
http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath585/kmath585.htm
http://www.islap.org/
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9610076
http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/
http://www.islandone.org/
http://www.openvirgle.info/wiki/index.php/Martian_Oxygen_Production
http://archive.stsci.edu/
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/TRC/Rockets/match_rocket.html
http://www.microlaunchers.com/
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=248651&cid=19831747
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/
http://www.stsci.edu/hst/nicmos/documents/handbooks/current_NEW/nicmos_instr_handbookTOC.html
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo_01.htm
http://openvirgle.net/
http://www.openvirgle.info/
http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/space/planets/planorbi.html
http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0704/0704.3454v1.pdf
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=31
http://pisces.uhh.hawaii.edu/competitions.php
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pasa
http://www.onera.fr/conferences/ramjet-scramjet-pde/
http://www.sas.org/E-Bulletin/2004-02-06/features/index.html
http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=22865
http://sciastro.net/
http://www.synapses.co.uk/science/moonwat.html
http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=27289
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spacephy/papers/yos1/yos1.html
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/16/1845220
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/12/0559250
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/cgi-bin/eprint/index.pl
http://spacepetition.com/
http://richard.hofer.com/electric_propulsion.html
http://electricpropulsion.blogspot.com/
http://spacelawprobe.blogspot.com/2007/12/v-prize-vision.html
http://spaceweb.oulu.fi/
http://www.spacepowerassociation.org/
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/
http://www.solstation.com/habitable.htm
http://www.primidi.com/2004/10/20.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/planets_table.html
http://www.cem.msu.edu/~cem181h/projects/97/solar/index.htm
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040119/nuclear.shtml
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/space_weapons/satellite_database.html
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/venusfact.html
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=428
http://www.keckobservatory.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRNS2Dcyyhw

- Bryan
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