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LEO Futures Market anyone? ( NASA Updat...
Ah, you've figured me out. How exciting for you. Thanks for the advice.
Reference, Transmittal Memo #??????, written by Craig E. Fink, from McDonnell Douglas, to NASA JSC Library, dated shortly after Ronald Reagan, who on behalf of the United States Government and NASA, made the offer** of free External Tanks to anyone. If you care to go look up the references. (**certain rules may apply, offer void where prohibited) It's not a question of _if_ the External Tank can be taken to orbit for free, but _how_ _high_ the External Tank can be taken, performance wise. As the Space Station comes down into a lower Orbit, it approaches this altitude from above. If it comes down enough, it crosses this altitude. The MEMO addressed the technical aspects (GN&C, performance) of taking the External Tank to Orbit. I'm sure there are other aspects of the NASA study, but performance wasn't and isn't the issue. In addition, there are other things that were not addressed in this MEMO that could reasonably be done to further raise the altitude of break even point. In other words, take the _BIG_ payload and the _Externel Tank_ to the Space Station. I haven't met an ET before, but looking forward to the day. I'm an Earthling, what planet are you from? pulls napkin back out, thinks, "Maybe I should have used an envelope, some people don't seem to understand the "design by napkin" technique. Humm, reaches for nearest envelope with a clean back. LEO Futures Market commodity #1 or 12, LOX, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_oxygen ....Density, 1.141 kg/L LEO Futures Market storage facility allocation, 1 large tank. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_S..._external_tank ....Volume, 1,497,440 liters LEO Futures Market initial LOX market size, ....Lots (units) of LOX available for storage and trading, 1,700,000 one kilogram. LEO Futures Market estimated potential value of LOX market (at full capacity) ...at $50,000 per kilogram, yields $85,000,000,000 market in LEO for LOX with the first. Hummm, that's a lot of zeros, better make an adjustment ... $5,000 per kilogram, yield $8.5 Billion potential market. Six external tanks would yield a potential LEO Futures Market greater than $50 Billion dollars with the first location in LEO. Seems to have a lot of potential, I wonder who might need 1.7 million kilograms of LOX on a regular basis? I guess NASA needs to think _BIG_ instead of _small_ in their plans to explore the Moon and Mars. -- Craig Fink Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @ -- Derek Lyons wrote: Craig Fink wrote: wrote: Six in the next year, that's 12 reasonably sized tanks to start a LEO Futures Market with. Twelve different products in the LEO Futures Market started in the next year, or so. That is over .1 megakilograms of storage facilities, all for free What was it Reagan sai..., not including product. Sure in some imaginary world where we have shuttle flights carrying essentially nothing to orbit, thus freeing their payload capacity for ferrying the ET into orbit. We don't live in such a world. puts napkin back in drawer, thinks, "I'm going to need a bigger napkin" No, you need to adjust your dosages. D. |
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