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what are the materials required to build a space settlement

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Space Settlements

I think about space settlements quite often. In my blog, I sketch the idea for the Flotilla Between Earth and Mars! Basically, a collection of vessels in a well-planned around Earth and Mars would provide the logistics organization for building, colonizing and sustaining a Mars colony.

Low Tech Solutions Best

When I look at the challenge of building settlements in space, the primary challenge isn’t finding things technologically advanced enough to get the job done. Instead, the primary challenge is getting enough of anything usable into service to participate in the settlement.

The analogy that could bring this into perspective is your home. To build a home, you use three truckloads of concrete, two truckloads of wood or block, a few roles of weather membrane, a pickup truckful of roofing tiles, a trunk of wiring, a few handfuls of electrical fixtures, and a basketful of high-tech gadgetry. Construct this around a dozen appliances, and you have a home.

What’s Mostly Needed

The basic structure for space settlements is the construction to create the volume. This may be from carved out asteroids, or recycled otherwise-useless space trash. Over the basic structure, just like your home, the quantity of materials decreases as the technological precision increases. If you’re looking at carbon nanotube structures for floor joists, you’re economic perspective of space development is off.

Recycled Trash

Expired missions that drop the remains into Earth’s orbit are such a dramatic waste. There is no reason why key components, panels, and structural members from completed missions shouldn’t migrate to a re-assembly point for another mission.

Rocks Cut by Laser

A likely first manufacturing project of space-sourced materials could be rocks cut to shape by laser. The rocks would be from an asteroid. Shipping a solar powered laser to space to cut an asteroid into building blocks seems a tractable problem. Assemble the asteroid blocks into a sphere. Install a small high-tech docking portal, and wrap the whole thing in plastic to keep it together and air tight, and voila! A structure. On the inside of the sphere, as needed, apply thick coats of paint or epoxy.

The Flotilla

My remaining challenge of my Flotilla is to develop the orbital plan that wraps the semi-major axis in close proximity to Mar’s orbit, and the semi-minor axis to Earth’s orbit with the few days of required procession to keep them aligned. Once those orbits can be most efficiently established, then transfer ships can be developed that reside entirely in space and are used to support the Mars development. These may be launched from Earth’s surface directly, constructed of recycled materials, or created out of asteroids, but they will have a united purpose: to maximize the efficiency of the in-space development and support capabilities to reduce the number of launches needed from the surface.

All manner of reuse, repurpose, and recycling will be essential