Cislunar – Sacramento L5 NSS Chapter

What is a Lagrange Point?

Post author:Ed Kulis
Post published:November 14, 2021
Post category:Cislunar Featured Moon Orbital Mechanics
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What are they?Our Sacramento L5 Society is named for the Lagrange Point EML5. Just like the illustration above for the Sun Earth Lagrange Points the Earth and the Moon have…

The Spaceport by Roger Arnold and Donald Kingsbury

Post author:Ed Kulis
Post published:July 28, 2021
Post category:Cislunar Earth Mission Control
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Part 1: An Alternate Means of Delivering Payload to OrbitPart 2: Building Energy Cheap Space Transportation - Suitably used, an orbiting spaceport could far more than pay for itself.For more,…

How To Blog to the SacL5 Site

Post author:Ed Kulis
Post published:August 29, 2020
Post category:Cislunar Mission Control
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The SacramentoL5Society uses Word Press and the editor plugin called Elementor. Elementor provides the tools to buld a website that is very simple to update and maintain. This video shows…

Hubble Telescope Builder – Bill Johnston

Post author:Ed Kulis
Post published:April 25, 2020
Post category:Cislunar Earth Mission Control Top Of The Page
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Hubble Telescope 30th anniversary interview with Bill Johnston https://youtu.be/5pt5QkTD-Yk Air Force Captain William "Bill" Johnston worked for over 30 years for Lockheed and Lockheed/Martin, and towards the end of his…

No Stopping in Orbit by Paul Turner

Post author:Ed Kulis
Post published:March 15, 2020
Post category:Cislunar Earth Mission Control Orbital Mechanics
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There is a common misperception that if you get rocket up high enough, say several hundred miles above the ground, there will be no gravity to pull it back down…

Urgent Need for US Space Force

Post author:Ed Kulis
Post published:February 16, 2020
Post category:Cislunar Earth Moon Solar System
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In June 2018, President Trump directed the Department of Defense to “begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces.” The reason…

Elon Musk Starship and Super Heavy

Post author:Ed Kulis
Post published:January 25, 2020
Post category:Cislunar Earth Moon Orbital Mechanics Solar System
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Starship and Super Heavy are the biggest, most important pieces of Elon Musk'sgrand plan for SpaceX, his private spaceflight company. Musk has repeatedly stressed that he founded SpaceX back in…

Moon Industrial Complex

Post author:Ed Kulis
Post published:January 25, 2020
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The Moon is gateway to space, and in the future it might serve as an industrial and mining complex fueling vast production of spaceships, rocket fuel, satellites, space stations, and…

Megastructures E04 – Rotating Habitats

Post author:Ed Kulis
Post published:January 25, 2020
Post category:Cislunar Orbital Mechanics Solar System
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In this fourth installment of the series we take a lengthy look at Rotating Habitats, large space stations that simulate gravity via spin and can replicate Earth-like environments.Contributed by Tom…

O’Neill Cylinders

Post author:Ed Kulis
Post published:January 25, 2020
Post category:Cislunar Orbital Mechanics Solar System Uncategorized
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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 as as entire city-states or nature…