Thursday, August 31, 2006

Building a network in Space

I think that we need to build a ship to place satellites into orbit around planets in our solar system. I think the second version of this ship should use what was learned to place satellites in orbit around planets in other solar systems.

We also need to create a process to create these satellites in volume with reduced prices. We need to use all learned in the past and apply the best of all satellite technologies to these in a standardized method. We need to make these cheap to manufacture so that we can make multiple satellites for each planet in the solar system. We can then improve upon this version and create a network in neighboring solar systems. There is around 60 - 90 planets that have been counted. Some are still getting verified and some counts are of the same planets so that is a wide range but the point is there are a lot out there. We have 12 planets in our solar system so 3 satellites per planet would be version 1 of the network. We can test the first three in earth orbit. Then after the use and testing of the 33 that would get applied to the rest of our solar system we can design the next version for extra-solar system placement. So with 60 x 3 that means 180 satellites which if semi-mass produced can be significantly more inexpensive and also assist other markets. This network of satellites would allow huge amounts of data and a wealth of information about the earths surroundings to be available to scientists.

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