SpaceX ambition for a Martian settlement demands novel efficiencies in habitat (hab) construction and provisioning. The Mars Terraformer Transfer (MATT) invention can achieve unprecedented hab construction efficiency by eliminating the need for massive pressure vessels. MATT uses existing planetary‐defense technology and complementary devices to redirect a small solar system body (SSSB) to Mars impact in 2036 and/or 2061. Impact produces “Omaha Crater”, a site specially structured by invention methods with warm crater floor depressions suitable for reservoirs and terrestrial flora, and suitable also for construction of mass‐efficient subaqueous habs. These habs are sunlit, open spaces, well protected against environmental hazards. An initial Omaha Crater hab network can offer roughly one hundred million cubic meters of pressurized volume, using cargo mass and cargo fleet scaled two orders of magnitude below pressure‐vessel requirement. In a separate presentation, a speculative transport architecture is sketched in Mars orbit. This “Omaha Trail” illustrates efficient settlement provisioning through integration of Deimos in‐situ resource utilization (ISRU) propellant, non‐equatorial Martian “space elevators”, and electromagnetic tethered Deimos rail launchers. The Omaha Trail would enable cargo transport between low Earth orbit (LEO) and a Martian settlement with neither a dedicated Earth‐launch LEO cargo tanker fleet nor its supporting Super Heavy fleet, cutting Earth‐launch cargo rocket stages by 80%. Additionally, water on the Omaha Trail and within MATT's Omaha Crater could conceivably complement “Omaha Field” magnetostatics to give the comprehensive radiation protection of an “Omaha Shield”; enabling an unlimited Mars career, wherein no career‐limiting radiation dose is absorbed over any career duration.
Efficient Martian Settlement with the Mars Terraformer Transfer (MATT) and the Omaha Trail
Terraforming Mars ; 51-72
2021-11-23
22 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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