Catégorie : English
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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…
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Mars Colonization Transport : latest speculations before revelations
Richard Heidmann translation: Etienne Martinache In our analysis issued at the end of 2015 (see also its summary in English) we tried to make out what the SpaceX project called Mars Colonization Transport (MCT) would look like. Let us bear in mind that Elon Musk should disclose the details of this project on 27th September…