• [Interview] How The Moon's Bumpy Gravitational Field Can Help Launch Things From Its Surface

  • Nov 18 2024
  • Length: 45 mins
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[Interview] How The Moon's Bumpy Gravitational Field Can Help Launch Things From Its Surface

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  • Moon has a non-uniform bumpy gravitational field. We can use these anomalies to launch stuff off the surface of the Moon with electromagnetic launchers. How exactly can we do it? Finding out in this interview. 🟣 Guest: Dr. Pekka Janhunen https://www.mpe.mpg.de/person/18090/2169 📜 Launching mass from the Moon helped by lunar gravity anomalies https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09616 📜 Terraforming the dwarf planet: Interconnected and growable Ceres megasatellite world https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.07487 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday More interviews: 🌞 Solar Gravitational Lens with Slava Turushev: https://youtube.com/live/lqzJewjZUkk?feature=share 🚀 Realistic Interstellar Travel with Andrew Higgins https://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI 🏡 Asteroid Habitats with Adam Frank https://youtu.be/Z-hH3-z56cg 00:00 Intro 02:51 Electrostatic sail updates 07:15 Launching stuff from the Moon 14:46 Finding trajectories 18:44 Practical applications 30:56 Mining Ceres 38:32 Future of humanity 42:53 More interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/VP4fn0_cb24 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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