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Welcome to "The Space Trade"
Arrives in early November 2014.
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Table of Contents: "The Space Trade"
Summary Table of Contents
Preliminary Matters xi
A Note about Titles and This Title xi
Dedication xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Chapter 1 Space Trade Overview
Why This Book at This Time
Business on the High Seas of Old
The Structure is the Profit Center
A Walk in the Orbiting Business Park
The Profitable Business System
Chapter 2 The Three Major Principals
The Structure is the Village
The Structure Provides Basic Space
Station Gravity
Business Reason Underlies Structural Design:
Divide Costs, Divide Risks, Protect Profits
The First Principal: The Spinship Owner
The Second Principal: The Habitat Owner
The Third Principal: The Habitat Occupant
Division of Risk Supports Profitability
Limitless Revenues from Space Real Estate Development
How Revenues Are Limitless
Continual Growth: The Self Sufficient Marketplace
Chapter 3 Space Real Estate Developer
Path A: Least Investment, Early but Smaller
Revenue and Profits
Path B: Habitats Vital to Self-sufficient
Orbital Real Estate
Path C: Complete Space Trade Hegemony
Chapter 4 Habitat Builders and Owners
The Habitat Owner or Leasing Company
The Job of the Habitat Builder
Berthing the Larger Habitat
Chapter 5 Space Habitat Tenants
Habitat Users: A Multitude of Diverse
Occupations
Profitable Sectors in Orbit
1. Tourism
2. Products
3. Unique Manufacturing
Energy Environment
4. Computing
5. Low Cost Flexible Delivery
6. Beaming Power to Earth
7. Local Markets
8. Farms in Space
9. Mining Made Simpler
10. Green the Earth
11. Mom and Pop Businesses
12. Other Businesses and Benefits
Chapter 6 Autonomous Miners -
Riches from Asteroids
The Space Trade Begins
The First Asteroid Mine
The Ideal Return
1. Traditional re-entry vehicle, Apollo style
2. Re-entry retro engine
3. Delivery by ascender wing
4. Space-built cone decelerator
5. Return by conversion to metallic foam
Conveyor Belt Supply of Material
Current Asteroid Adventures
Identify Many Asteroids, Mine the Best
Mine First the Moon or the Asteroids
Chapter 7 Space Traders: Ferryboats
in Orbit
The Space Trader Ferry Craft
Passage Out of Earth
Supply and Construction of the Spinship
Real Estate
From the Passenger Point of View
Ferry Craft Fuel Efficiency
The Mature Ferry System
Chapter 8 Orbits: How Vessels Move in Space
Delivery to Earth
1. Traditional Re-entry Vehicle: Apollo Style
2. Re-entry by Retro Engine
3. Inflatable Drag Devices
4. Space-built Cone Decelerator
5. Foamed Metal
Getting to Orbit
Chapter 9 Low Cost Access to Orbit
Access to Orbit: Cheap and Cheaper
A Flood of Competitors
The Low Cost Method of JP Aerospace
How to Achieve Low Cost to and from Orbit
Chapter 10 The Space Beast: Turn it Around
Duties Associated with Ownership
Spinship Operator Duties
Rotation
Balance
Electrical Power Grid and Protected Habitat
Air and Water
The Duty of Maintenance
Habitat Owner Duties
Habitat Occupant Duties
Choice of Law
CAVEAT ITAR
Chapter 11.1 How to Develop Space Real Estate -
Overview
Chapter 11.2 How to Develop Space Real Estate
– Step-by-Step
Real Estate Route 01: Step-by-Step
Route 01. Step 01: Mine Asteroids
Twelve Small Steps: A Mines and
Smelters Project
1. Choose a C-class (carbonaceous,
chondrite-like) asteroid
2. Start with a small, but powerful rocket
3. To go spacefaring, launch an off-the-shelf
cubesat type ion engine
4. Buy or build a lightweight nav and com system
5. Design-build small excavator, smelter
and capture device
6. Launch rockets, ion engines and
gear to earth orbit
7. Power an ion engine by sunlight,
and fly to an asteroid
8. Sample, smelt and bag the
mined material
9. Return to earth orbit with $45
million of water or platinum
10. In earth orbit, attach ore to a
skyfloat device
11. Fly the ore to a buyer on earth
12. Go to the bank, launch more
and return more
Route 01. Step 2: Step by step build
orbital real estate
Route 01. Step 2. A: Build a Small
Circular Framework
Route 01. Step 2. B: Allow slotting of
resort and other habitats
Route 01. Step 2. C: Further
Expand the Real Estate
Real Estate Route 02: The Direct Approach
Start with a Large Investment
Real Estate Route 03: The Other
Direct Approach: Plan Smaller Wheels
Start with a Moderate Investment
Real Estate Route 04: In the
Company of the Medium Big
Real Estate Route 05: Waiting for
Sugar Daddy, or Starting Late
Chapter 11.3 How to Develop Space Habitats –
Step-by-Step
Habitat Route 01: Build Space
Real Estate on Earth
The Earth-based All Recycling House
Up the All Recycling Ante
Space Preparation Equals Earth-based Profits
Design and Building Standards
The Airlock: How Habitats Are Connected
The Shape and Size of a Spinship Habitat
What Kind of Habitats are First?
Habitat Route 02: Build Space
Real Estate in Orbit
Step 01
Step 02
Step 03
Step 04
Step 05
Chapter 11.4 Develop Space Farms & Businesses -
Step-by-Step
Step 1: Autonomous Development
Step 2: Technicians and Farmers
Step 3: Attracting a Community of Workers
Chapter 12.1 How Space Development Saves Earth
Saving the Earth from Pollution, the
Greenhouse Effect, Asteroids and Comets
1. Earth life will never be perfect.
2. We can save the earth from pollution and
the greenhouse effect now.
3. Space development and natural
bodies whizzing through space at us.
4. We are unable to predict all the
consequences of permanent space habitation.
5. What about objects falling from
orbit? Don’t we have enough debris
up there already?
6. We are afraid of doing things that
are out of the ordinary.
7. Saving the earth. There are a number of ways
that space development saves the earth.
Steering Comets and Asteroids
New Devices and Other Spinoffs
Improved Traditional and
Innovative Agriculture
Pollution Reduction
Power the Individual with the All
Recycling House
Earth Watch, Earth Talk
Sun Block
Carbon Dioxide Heating
Sun Block Protection from Solar Flares