Auteur/autrice : Richard Heidmann
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MRO NOUS PHOTOGRAPHIE
(doc. NASA/JPL) HiRISE, le télescope de 50 cm d’ouverture de la sonde orbitale Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter a saisi le 20 novembre dernier le spectacle du ballet de la Lune et de la Terre, alors distants de 205 millions de kilomètres. En fait, deux images ont été combinées, de façon à pouvoir appliquer à la Lune et à…
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Martian habitats: molehills or glass houses?
Article by Richard Heidmann, Association Planète Mars vice president – English translation by Etienne Martinache. After having analyzed the targets assigned by SpaceX to its project of an Earth-Mars transportation system which is supposed to set up and serve a Martian settlement (see “l’étude MCT” on the site www.planete-mars.com), we decided to address the issue of an…
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An economic model for a martian colony of a thousand people
La version française est ici. Richard Heidmann, vice-president Association Planète Mars Pierre Brisson, financial advisor and English translation [toggles behavior= »accordion »] [toggle title= »Summary »] 1 Introduction 1.1 The economic nature of a Martian colony 1.2 No colony without purpose 1.3 A realistic scheme: the supply of residency 2 Conditions for an economic realization 2.1 Financing the…