oriontwo project: extra-terrestrial resources exploitation to escape the earth gravity well

Alexander MayborodaAVANTA Consulting

ORIONTWO PROJECT:EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL RESOURCES

EXPLOITATION TO ESCAPE THE EARTH GRAVITY WELL

Moscow Space ClubApril 9, 2015

Aerospace Technology Crisis• In 1964 Serguey Korolev promised: “Soon

regular people will regularly fly into space for their holidays”.

• In 2015 only billionaires can afford space flights.

• As for the price of cargo delivery, it is still high: from $ 10 000 / kg to $ 50 000 / kg depending on the orbit.

• Such high prices deter space industrialization and commercialization.

• When cargo delivery prices fall to $ 3 000 / kg, semiconductors production on the orbit will surpass $ 100 billion / year.

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Aerospace Technology Crisis

• Rockets have led the way into space: the first satellite, the first flight of Yuri Gagarin, Lunokhods-moon rovers and astronauts’ landing on the Moon, the Venus and the Mars exploration, comets and far-away planets research, etc.

• But rockets on chemical fuel have limited capacity. It is necessary to find a replacement for them.

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Orion Project is a Way to Solve the Problem

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Cargo delivery price to the orbit is around $150 / kg.

Orion Project is a Way to Solve the Problem


Cargo delivery price to the orbit is around $150 / kg.

Orion Project is a Way to Solve the Problem• Originally Orion was a manned

nuclear-impulse spacecraft developed in the USA in 1950s-1960s.

• Orion spacecraft engine works on the energy of nuclear reactions.

• Economic featured of Orion project were so good that the Moon, the Mars and the Jupiter could have been colonized during the previous century.

• But ecological features of the system were terrifying and have led to the project’s shut-down.


The project OrionTwo - is the solution of Orion`s problems

• In Orion project the spacecraft is driven by shock waves of nuclear explosions.

• In the OrionTwo project substance flows are used instead of nuclear explosions at the low-earth orbit with the speed of the flow exceeding first cosmic velocity.

• The substance flows are created by spacecraft from materials of asteroids, the Moon, the earth atmosphere and other planets.

• Energy consumption to create such propellant substance flows is tens and hundreds times less than the energy they acquire in the end of their fall into the earth gravity well and consequently the energy they give to the accelerating space vehicles is tens and hundreds times more than the energy consumed.


Substance flow directionV = 7900 … 12000 m/s

Propellant Flow Types for OrionTwo System


Suborbital reusable rockets vertically lift capsules with cargoes and passengers into the propellant flows.

The capsules have «sails», the latter being ablative shields, that accelerate the capsules to the first cosmic velocity under the influence of propellant particles impact effect with the pressure of 5-50 Bar.

Propellant Flow Sources for OrionTwo System

• The basic source of propellant flow is orbital substance collector that captures substances from atmosphere like PROFAC and PHARO systems or from gaseous and aerosol media on its way like ORBITRON system.

• In future, apart from Earth substance collectors, the Mars and the Venus gas collectors will be used as well. The collectors will be delivered to the Earth by interplanetary transportation vehicles and then the gases will be used to produce propellant flows.


The direction of flow. The capsule.


• Another source of propellant is automatic transportation-production complexes on the Moon or asteroids close-by that use regolith components including water resources.


The direction of flow. The capsule.


• Before the Moon resources are utilized, propellant can be produced from Easily Retrievable Object Asteroid Group. The group is easy to reach, and cargo spacecraft require speed of less than 500 m/sec to return to the Earth. Flying to them easier than to the Moon.

• Later, resources of the Phobos , the Deimos and Trojan asteroids of the Mars and the Jupiter can be utilized since their orbits are located in the ecliptic plane.



• The Moon regolith utilization to create propellant flows at the bottom of the Earth gravity well at the altitude of 120-200 km produces 20 times more kinetic energy than the energy needed to lift the regolith from the Moon gravity well.

• Regolith from the asteroids moving towards the Earth utilization allows hundred times more efficient energy production over energy consumption.


Kinetic Engine as a Machine to Utilize Potential Energy of Celestial Bodies

Legend:• 1 – engine hull;• 2 – chamber bottom with ablative and auxiliary

substances;• 3 – engine chamber;• 4 – cooling system;• 5 – engine’s nozzle;• 6 – incoming high-speed track (ribbon or tube) made of

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Kinetic Engine as a Machine to Utilize Potential Energy of Celestial Bodies

• Track (6) enters chamber (3) of kinetic engine located in the rear part of the vehicle. It endures impact deceleration in gaseous media of the chamber (2), the latter being covered with ablative covering and supplied with auxiliary buffer substances.

• The impact leads to the track substance evaporation and the formed gas emission towards the rear end of the chamber through the conical nozzle (5) of the engine.

• As a result, we get a reactive stream accelerating the vehicle.• In the terminology of theoretical physics, elastic collision is used here.


Experimental Basis for OrionTwo System• Spacecraft launch by low-

density flow from space is an almost complete analogue to atmospheric deceleration of the spacecraft.

• Sails or ablative shields stability of the spacecraft is tested by Orion Project on the models driven by :- chemical explosions;- thermonuclear explosions.


Experimental Basis for OrionTwo System


Suborbital reusable rockets and rocket-planes are off-the-shelf parts for OrionTwo System


Lynx Space Transportation System. Mission life of 5 000 launches. Launching frequency of every four hours.

Videos of OrionTwo Conceptual Working Schemes

• Lunar material for OrionTwo (2 min 22 sec)https://youtu.be/GtymC1ZysrU

• OrionTwo - Орион II (1 min 11 sec)https://youtu.be/zcOhK5Yo4eM

• OrionTwo Stream (1 min 15 sec)https://youtu.be/wEJCYrpXKX0

• Astrojet Project (8 min 50 sec)https://youtu.be/PLR-SUHp04w


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Patents

• Method and system of jet engine feeding. Patents of Russia RU2385275, Ukraine 100625, Belarus ЕАPО 018524.

• Method of energy supply to space apparatuses–collectors. Patent of Russia RU2451631.

• Energy supply method for spacecraft-accumulators. Patent Application US 2013/0233974 A1.

• Method and system for feeding jet engines. Patent application US2014/0326832 A1.


Patents• Method and system for feeding

jet engines US patent application is pending.

• Detailed action on the claims that are currently pending and under consideration is received from the US Patent and Trademark Office in April 2015 .

• Micro investment is required to pay for patent counsel work on the answer to the US Patent and Trademark Office.


Patents

• Method and system for delivering cargoes into space. US 8882047 B2. Status: Grant of patent is intended

• Method for delivering cargoes into space and a system for implementation of same. EP2390188Status: Grant of patent is intended (Great Britain, Germany, France).

• Способ доставки грузов в космос и система его осуществления. Патент России RU2398717• Способ доставки грузов в космос и система его осуществления. Патент ЕАПО 017577• Спосіб доставки вантажів в космос і система його здійснення. Патент Украины 99230• Способ энергообеспечения космических аппаратов-накопителей. Патент России

RU2451631• Energy supply method for spacecrafts-accumulators. Патентная заявка US 2013/0233974 A1• Method and system for feeding jet engines. Патентная заявка US 2014/0326832 A1


Commercialization: OrionTwo Space Transportation System Licenses To Sell

• During the first stage of the project commercialization, AVANTA Consulting plans to: - sell licenses in the countries where Orbitron® technology, the key component to OrionTwo Project, is patented (the USA, the UK, Germany, France, Russia, etc);- sell franchises in other countries that have no patent covering legislation;

• During the second stage of the project commercialization, AVANTA Consulting plans to produce and sell: - land-based components of the system;- spare and wear parts, operating supplies and key elements of the orbital part of the system to be installed on the customers’ units.


Commercialization: OrionTwo Space Transportation System (STS) and Space

Technology

• Cargo transportation for satellite solar power station construction:- Within the Japanese Solarbird program of $ 24 billion per year;- Within the similar Chinese program of $ 24 billion per year;

• Carbon energy sources replacement by space energy sources by the end of the 21st century.


Commercialization: OrionTwo Space Transportation System (STS) and Space

Technology

• Photoelectric converters market of $100 billion per year;

• Including thin-film solar batteries production market of $ 25 billion per year.


Commercialization: OrionTwo STS and Space Tourism


Required Investment

• Project stages:- Front-end detail design definition;- Computer modelling;- Kinetic engine spacecraft demo model production, tests and retrofit;- Micro-satellite version of the spacecraft production for space trials, its retrofit.

• Required Funds: - $ 1 000 000 including $ 500 000 from a private investor in addition to $ 500 000 from Skolkovo Investment Fund for the period of two years.- The investor receives the start-up’s equity capital share of 25%.


Potential Partners • Planetary Resources • Deep Space Industries• Virgin Galactic • SpaceX • Bigelow Aerospace • Boeing Company • EADS Astrium• Mitsubishi Corp.• Shimizu Corp.

• TSNIIMASH (Central Scientific Research Institute of Machine Building)TSNIIMASH (Central Scientific Research Institute of Machine Building)• Space Research Institute of the Academy of SciencesSpace Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences• United Institute of High Temperatures: Mathematic models for shock and impact United Institute of High Temperatures: Mathematic models for shock and impact

processes processes • Institute of Semiconductor Physics of Siberian Department of Russian Academy Institute of Semiconductor Physics of Siberian Department of Russian Academy

of Sciences and Russian Space Agency: ОКА-Т technological module of Sciences and Russian Space Agency: ОКА-Т technological module • Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. BaumanMoscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman• State Space Research and Production Center named after M. Khrunichev: State Space Research and Production Center named after M. Khrunichev:

MRKC-1 suborbital demonstrator MRKC-1 suborbital demonstrator

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Support Team

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Vladimir Migel

Alexander Mayboroda

Dmitry DragunDmitry Dragun

Vitaly MelnikovVitaly MelnikovOleg PchelyakovOleg Pchelyakov

Vadim FrolovVadim Frolov

Alexander Popov

Denis Anisimov

Yury Lebedev Victor Korovin

Summary• The developed system guarantees radical price

reduction on space cargoes delivery.

• Cost saving provides additional profit in the sphere of cargo and passenger trnsportation into space.

• The project team is looking for partners for the project’s commercialization.

• AVANTA Consulting welcomes potential partners to negotiate collaboration on commercialization of OrionTwo Project.


Thank you for your attentionContact information:

• Alexander Mayboroda• AVANTA Consulting• Address: 150 Bolshaya Sadovaya St.,

office 909, Rostov-on-Don, 344000, Russia.• Tel.: +7 (863) 221 73 71, +7 (863) 263 32 94 • E-mail: [email protected] • Web-site: www.mayboroda.com


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