Absconding ISS to Venus L2 (VL2), whatever the radiation

OK, instead of 'Absconding ISS to Venus L2 (VL2), whatever the
radiation'

How about promoting a replacement for TRACE?

I realize that I've been pushing several of these 'do not push' buttons,
along with my lose cannon method of getting folks thinking along the
lines of what's most important about the likes of Venus, and/or even as
per considering upon the prospects of our getting a TRACE-II established
at VL2.

Perhaps you know of others capable of engineering the relocation of ISS
to the ME-L1 zone, or of accomplishing alternatives of interplanetary
communications efforts, or of getting another new and improved
Magellan-II mission off to Venus (oops, ESA/Russia seem to be doing just
that), even the likes of accomplishing a new and improved TRACE-II as
station-keeping at Venus-L2 is another perfectly good alternative that
wouldn't cost 1% of doing Mars in person.

Ideally this interplanetary communications task should transpire from a
space platform like ISS, or as better from a stationary ME-L1
satellite/platform if not the ultimate being a TRACE-II that's offering
a station-keeping platform at VL2, and otherwise most efficiently as for
being technically doable from the lunar surface would certainly provide
a stable platform having way more than a sufficient opportunity as to
converting the 1.4 kw/m2 into accommodating a fairly decent laser
cannon, where as little as one m2 of PV cells should be sufficient for
driving a binary pulsed laser energy output of 10% duty cycle (100 ms
worth of CW laser output per second) that's offering at least 1 kw worth
of those 425 nm photons. Of course, if that's too efficient and too
focused, we could set up 100 m2 worth of those same PV cells along with
deploying a fairly massive microwave transmitter site upon the moon
that's good for about the same beam energy that's spread over 1°, thus
creating only a fraction of the energy/m2 arriving into their seasonal
nighttime environment of Venus where there's nearly zero chance in hell
that any form of life would ever realize we've been knocking on their
door.

I certainly would have liked having seen a TRACE-II established at Venus
L2. At least that way all sorts of perfectly good information can be
efficiently obtained and relayed to/from whatever interactive surface
instruments, possibly via laser transceiving (thus a quantum packet
stream of 1e12 bps becomes doable) and then by way of our having to use
the traditional inefficient microwave methods of sharing such data
to/from Earth. Of course the TRACE-II team would be multi-tasking on
behalf of continuing their mission of researching of our sun, except for
having a better perspective than ever possible by the original TRACE
instrument that's somewhat outdated and about to go off-line due to old
age.

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


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TRACE -- TRACE-II
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

With some reading and whatever brief look-see, you can soon 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), and being situated roughly 25% closer to the
sun should become rather impressive, and still likely not 10% the cost
of doing another Mars orbiting mission, and perhaps 1% the cost 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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