One of the Team advisors wrote the book Mining the Sky: http://goo.gl/BVSRh
Has anyone read it? -- Owen On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Carl Tollander <[email protected]> wrote: > Assume somebody has thought about sticking 'em at lagrange points. > They'll stay there, and could survey some of the asteroids that also hang > in the vicinity. Some of them are quite large. > > Could also set the craft themselves to orbit the lagrange points. Since > those are 'tadpole' orbits, at, say, L4, they'd cover more territory. How > you'd do comm between cheapsats at those distances....maybe launch at > intervals and let each one relay signals between the earlier and > later-launched guys. > > I was thinking earlier that there's the possibility for very long baseline > interferometry, so there's an avenue for cooperation. > > 9000 near earth asteroids so far - a lot to see. > > > On 4/25/12 9:40 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > Interesting .. a swarm of 16 or more space explorers. Wow! > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Carl Tollander <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.spacevidcast.com/ live/ <http://www.spacevidcast.com/live/> > > > ============================== ============================== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > >
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