Flavio hc16 Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago 1 hour ago, darthgently said: I could see having something habitable in lunar orbit to serve the same purpose as emergency cabins in the alps. A small pressurized shelter with emergency consumables perhaps. Maybe even a dedicated often manned research station just for supporting lunar research. But the “gateway to mars” thing never rang right. Gateway is useless even as a shelter, for 2 reason: 1) it gets to randevouz with the lunar polar orbit once every 2 weeks, so there is a high chance that if something happens, Earth might be closer (3 days) than gateway. 2) you are in an orbit that isn't shield half of the time by the moon so you only take half the radiation from the Sun in case of solar flare/storm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago (edited) 43 minutes ago, Flavio hc16 said: Gateway is useless even as a shelter, for 2 reason: 1) it gets to randevouz with the lunar polar orbit once every 2 weeks, so there is a high chance that if something happens, Earth might be closer (3 days) than gateway. 2) you are in an orbit that isn't shield half of the time by the moon so you only take half the radiation from the Sun in case of solar flare/storm. Yes, definitely not NRHO. We need repeater sats for continuous comms, not NRHO Edited 12 hours ago by darthgently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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