Space/Science — HabitableZone

Space/Science » in reply to re: Main Belt Comets

25% water vs 1%...

Hi gb

What was the observed hydrogen levels around the Moon's poles? As I remember it was about ~1% water, which is a lot harder to extract than 25% in the NEOs. And some NEOs might be ice coated in asphalt (dust+kerogen sludge) which would be even easier to extract.

An integrated mission architecture would launch off using solar-sails or concentrator arrays to power SEP or solar thermal. Then use those same photon-collectors to process the NEO target before finally using some of the liberated water mass to get back to L1 or wherever's convenient.

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