While the most valuable materials will be stored on the axis of the toroidal ship to be relieved from the station. This system will be used to send ice and already refined materials, such as iron, nickel, copper, titanium, lithium, sulfur, etc. The Erebus station will send self-propelled cargo containers to earth through its Gauss cannon in the direction of Earth orbit to be recovered. Upon establishment of the mining colony, uranium will be mined and enriched, and deuterium and tritium will be extracted from the ice for storage as fuel for mission relays. On the other hand, fuel used to manufacture nuclear cells for communication satellites can be used. And the electrical power will keep the particle accelerators and the rest of the ship's systems running. The heat from the reactors after passing through the turbines will be used to heat the building. The fission reactors will use enriched uranium as a fuel and heavy water as a neutron moderator, producing the tritium needed to drive the spacecraft. Propulsion and power of the ships Erebus Station These nuclear explosions caused by the fusion of hydrogen will produce immense amounts of energy with minimal waste of matter, being used to move the station. These isotopes will be initially accelerated in the fusion reactors and later in particle accelerators until they are made to collide in the impulsion nozzles of the toroidal ship. Fission reactors will produce energy and fissile isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium, and tritium. The reactor rooms will have a fusion reactor and a fission reactor. Four modules of the habitable ring will be nuclear reactors. Given the large amount of energy required to move such a mass, nuclear propulsion will be chosen. Power for the base on Ceres will be sourced from solar panels and nuclear reactors.Įach toroidal ship will occupy a volume of 2,877,965 m³, with a useful surface of 70,400 m², for which it has been estimated that it will weigh 2,014,575.5 tons. Deuterium and tritium, used in nuclear fusion reactors, are subsequently released from the ice. Mainly ice will be mined, abundant under the surface in a thick layer. Most of the facilities will be underground, occupying the excavation tunnels with the mineral processing machinery. The shortage of gravity will allow mining and smelting work with a low energy cost.Īt Ceres, raw materials will be mined and refined to be shipped in ingots to the station. The settlement on the surface will be located around a large shaft with an installed gauss cannon that will launch the cargo containers towards the orbiting station. The human settlement will be located in orbit due to the lack of gravity in Ceres, 0.27 m / s² in addition to the absence of a magnetic field that protects from radiation. A robotic mining settlement will be established on the surface of the dwarf planet that will send material to the orbital station.
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