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Moon factory, rail gun

I mean it sounds simple, obviously doing that we be a ton of work, but it seems very feasible. And doing that would be an incredible starting point for space industry. From there, we could send out automated probes to capture trojan asteroids from earths orbit and launch them into lunar orbit for collection. We could even put them in a non stable orbit that bleeds off orbital speed and eventually they bleed off enough to land while staying in almost one piece depending on the type of asteroid.

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How do you bleed orbital speed around a body with no atmosphere?

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Hmm… yes.

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There’s got to be a way to take advantage of tidal locking mechanisms, but artificially accelerated in pace, using a satellite that can alter its own spin, to alter that satellite’s orbit.

There’s got to be. Two bodies in orbit are in contact and should be able to act upon one another to arrange themselves with regard to one another.

My gut is telling me there’s a way to do that.

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