Relocate ISS to ME-L1

Still no takers, no viable pro/con contributions of what's entirely
possible, or of whatever needs a whole lot more R&D before shipping the
likes of ISS off to the moon. It's almost as though our basalt dark and
extremely nasty moon is still entirely nondisclosure cold-war taboo, so
much so that of folks doing anything moon related might tip a few of
those nasty cold-war lids entirely off those jars of disinformation.

In which case, we could simply share and share alike on behalf of
delivering a replacement on behalf of team TRACE. Not towards the ME-L1
zone but to the Venus L2 (VL2) zone as such station-keeping is entirely
doable. Even though TRACE-II would represent an absolute win-win-win for
all involved, however I'll suspect that the usual lords and wizards of
this 'sci.space.station' forum that summarily sucks are not about to
share and share alike upon anything that really matters.

So, posting the contents of yet another topic like 'TRACE -- TRACE-II'
may not accomplish any better outcome here than for accomplishing
anything on behalf of the moon, and certainly not persay for relocating
the likes of ISS to VL2, as that's just totally insane, though
technically doable in a highly AI/robotic format.

Instead of ISS to the moon, how about TRACE -- TRACE-II -- VL2
http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/
http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/POD/T...doverview.html

http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/Scien...ce_images.html

http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/Scien.../mov_page.html

http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/Scien.../tri980616.jpg

http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/Scien...171_980521.jpg

From some reading and a brief look-see is where most of us can discover
and hopefully realize as to how much optical data and thereby scientific
bang for the almighty buck/euro that team TRACE has been delivering from
such a relatively small package. Just think of TRACE-II as being ten
fold improved in CCD and perhaps double the optics, thus somewhat larger
and easily outfitted with a few relatively small and somewhat even more
so insignificant power consuming laser communications cannons.

With the 2 fold improvement in optical magnification, plus a ten fold
improvement in CCD density (that's a combined 20 fold improvement in raw
pixel resolution power), of being situated roughly 20% closer to the sun
should become rather impressive, and still likely not 10% the investment
of accomplishing another Mars orbiting mission, and perhaps merely 1%
the investment of doing the likes of Saturn/Titan.

Getting the likes of TRACE-II into the VL2 sweet spot might be a little
tricky, a bit retro-thrust intensive and requiring a good deal more of
those xenon/ION engines in order to afford TRACE-II the necessary option
of moving itself somewhat in and out of the exact VL2 spot.

Actually, by now there should be a good 4 fold optical improvement plus
the 10 fold enhanced CCD, thus a 40 fold overall improvement along with
all of those absolutely super terrific spectrum selective band-pass
filters.

Thus whatever ESA/Russia can manage, you'd have to think that our crack
NASA wizards should be capable of pulling off a TRACE-II in nothing
flat.

Regards, Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm


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