Catégorie : English
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Planète Mars Association cliffbot experimentation overview
Since end of 2001 Planète Mars association has experimented a vehicle intended to send instrumentation along slopes or cliffs which would not be safely accessible to an explorer in spacesuit. As for April 2016 the total number of tests cumulated on different vehicles configuration since 2001 has reached 123. These tests had the following objectives:…
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Mars Colonization Transport: Main findings of our analysis
In September 2015 we issued a second release of our study about what could look like a MCT, taking into account most recent hints from SpaceX, especially its supposed preference for a single core launcher and for a dual launch to LEO (spaceship and refueling tanker). Unfortunately, this second report, which shows a more convincing…
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A Mars Colony – A Tentative Technical Analysis
(by Richard Heidmann, vice-president, Association Planète Mars (French chapter of The Mars Society). English translation by Pierre Brisson) Foreword This report, written for the benefit of association Prospective 2100, was published (in French) in 2008 on the website of Association Planète Mars, the French branch of The Mars Society. During the seven years that have…