Cislunar
Ed Kulis

O’Neill Cylinders

A look at O’Neill Cylinders, immense space habitats. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/  Far larger than any conventional Space Station, O’Neill Cylinders could potentially serve

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Solar System
Ed Kulis

Solar Minimum is Coming

High up in the clear blue noontime sky, the sun appears to be much the same day-in, day-out, year after year. But astronomers have long

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Cislunar
Ed Kulis

Implementing the NSS Vision

Exciting News! Our Sacramento L5 Society has an article published in the National Space Society Magazine! Implementing the NSS Vision We, a consensus of the

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Moon
Ed Kulis

Fly Me to the Moon

Fly Me to the Moon: An Insider’s Guide to the New Science of Space Travel by Edward Belbruno    This is a great book that describes

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Orbital Mechanics
Ed Kulis

Oberth effect

In astronautics, a powered flyby, or Oberth maneuver, is a maneuver in which a spacecraft falls into a gravitational well, and then accelerates when its

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Solar System
Ed Kulis

Fuel and Drink on Enceladus

Ted Talks is a great site to see enthusiasm for technical and intellectual excellence.  Check out Carolyn Porco: This is Saturn where Carolyn describes the water on Enceladus and

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Orbital Mechanics
Ed Kulis

Tsiolkovsky rocket equation

The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, or ideal rocket equation, describes the motion of vehicles that follow the basic principle of a rocket: a device that can

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Cislunar
Ed Kulis

SacL5 $100 Million Grant Proposal

In 2016, the SL5S entered the “100&Change” grant contest. Their entry focused on helping solve the enormous problems resulting from the ongoing collision between linear

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Earth
Ed Kulis

SacL5 January Meeting

Clockwise from right, Jan, Ed, Joe and Tom on screen met for 2 hours Saturday 1/11/20 at 5pm at JP Aerospace, Rancho Cordova, CA. Here’s

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Solar System
Ed Kulis

NASA Planetary Science

NASA’s planetary science program is engaged in one of the oldest scientific pursuits: the observation and discovery of our solar system’s planetary objects. We undertake

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Ad Astra
Ed Kulis

Real Warp Drive Theory

Alcubierre drive The Alcubierre drive, Alcubierre warp drive, or Alcubierre metric (referring to metric tensor) is a speculative idea based on a solution of Einstein’s field equations in general relativity as proposed by Mexican

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Mission Control
Ed Kulis

Powering a Moon Base

In the human race’s distant past, the world was effectively boundless. The L5 Society was originally founded on the vision that it’s possible to recreate

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Liftoff!
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Hello world!

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