Contents, Oversight, Structure of this section

In between this section has threads filling several sides and it has become very difficult to find a special thread or to see if a thread on atopic has been initiated much earlier already: Oversight has gone lost

Also the threads are mixed which too makes it hard to find a special topic - classification of the threads may be helpful.

The threads can be structured really and so I will start to post a few stickies for main-categories of threads which contain sub-categories with links to all the threads I classified to be a member of these sub-categories.

Threads can be classified into sevral categories in parallel.



Dipl.-Volkswirt (bdvb) Augustin (Political Economist)

Contents: 1. Traffic, Industry and Science
Contents: 2. Vehicles etc, Health etc., Requirements etc.
Contents: 3. Drives and Engines, Propellants
Contents: 4. Development, Flexibility, Knowledge etc.
Contents: 5. Flight, Stations, Human Expansion etc.
Contents: 6. Applications, Purposes etc. and Miscellanous



The contents is/are optimized to keep the number of stickies low.

Several different systems of classification are possible but only one can be applied. So I did have to choose one. Feel free to propose other structures of contents and to post them as answers to the stickies but please take care that they fit into the titles of the six stickies and make use of this thread.

If you are missing athread in the conents please infrom or remind me in this thread.

If this contents stimulates new ideas and thoughts or if it reveals white spots or regions in the map of the landscape of space technologies this too should be considered to be one explicit puspose of this conetns.



Dipl.-Volkswirt (bdvb) Augustin (Political Economist)

Completed: Contents with chapters etc.:

Contents: 1. Traffic, Industry and Science



A. Traffic

I. Flight Supervision
II. Interorbital Traffic
III. Space Elevator
IV. Space Elevator-derived Catapults
V. Surface Traffic across other planets
VI. Tethers
VII. Velocities



B. Industry

I. Application of Space Vehicles
II. Energy Distribution
III. Energy Generation at Planets
IV. Energy Generation in Free Space
V. Energy Generation in Space Vehicles.
VI. Lunar Industry
VII. Lunar Mining
VIII. Orbital Industry
IX. Space Debris
X. Space Industry
XI. Space Mining
XII. Space Tools
XIII. Use and Integration of Space Rocks



C. Science

I. Exploration of Planets





Contents: 2. Vehicles etc, Health etc., Requirements etc.



A. Vehicles

I. Application of existing Launchers
II. Crew Exploration Vehicle
III. Dyna-Soar
IV. From Suborbital Flight to Orbital Flight
V. Heavy Lifters
VI. Hybrid Flight Concepts
VII. Hybridities of Space Vehicles
VIII. Improvements of new developed launchers
IX. Interplanetary Vehicles
X. Interstellar Vehicles
XI. Ramjet and Air Augmentation
XII. Shuttles
XIII. SpaceShipNnn
XIV. Vehicles in General



B. Materials

I. Nanocarbontubes
II. Spaceflight-fit Materials



C. Outlook

I. Artificial Gravity



D. General new Solutions

I. Cooling
II. Robots
III. Safe Access to High Pressure Environment



E. Life

I. Adjustment of Beings to Alien Environments



F. Health

I. Forces on Payloads and Passengers
II. Health of Passengers or Astronauts
III. Radiation Shielding



G. Support

I. Food Supply
II. Life Support



H. Requirements

I. Emergency Systems
II. Vehicle and Station Atmosphere
III. Water Supply in Vehicles



I. Restrictions

I. Boundaries of Capabilities
II. Restrictions





Contents: 3. Drives and Engines, Propellants



A. Drives and Engines

I. Beam Riding
II. Chemical Drives
III. Conventional Fusion Drives
IV. Electric Drives
V. Exotic Drives
VI. Fusion Drive
VII. Light Sails
VIII. Nuclear Non-Fusion Drives
IX. Plasma Drive
X. Pulsed Fusion Drives
XI. Drive/Engine Combinations
XII. Drives/Engines else
XIII. Engines and Drives in General
XIV. Improvements



B. Propellants

I. Powering by Water ...
II. Propellants





Contents: 4. Development, Flexibility, Knowledge etc.



A. Development

I. Development Approaches
II. Development Concepts
III. Modification of Vehicle Technologies
IV. Possible Sources of new Technologies
V. Simulators
VI. Sources of Ideas
VII. Technologies in General
VIII. Technologies of XPRIZE-teams



B. Flexibility

I. Modularity
II. Remote Control



C. Informations

I. Informations



D. Knowledge

I. Basics for Engineering
II. Construction Methods



E. Organization

I. Administration of Technologies and Development
II. Philosophics of Technology
III. Technological Meaning of Agencies



F. Skills

I. Skills





Contents: 5. Flight, Stations, Human Expansion etc.



A. Flight

I. Launch Concepts
II. Launch to Orbit
III. Launch Methods in the Orbit
IV. Launch from the Moon
V. Improvement of existing Launch Concepts
VI. Propellentless Launch
VII. Reentry
VIII. Reentry Concept
IX. Landing Concepts
X. Concepts and Modes of Flying
XI. Boundaries of Requirements
XII. Navigation
XIII. Orientation



B. Stations

I. Lunar Station
II. Mars Station
III. Space Stations



C. Human Expansion

I. Colonization
II. Habitats
III. Terraforming



D. Infrastructure

I. Equipment at the Edge of the Atmosphere
II. Gateways
III. Coordination
IV. Computers



E. Equipment

I. Detectors, Sensors, Telescopes



F. Effects and Consequences

I. Interdependency/Integration





Contents: 6. Applications, Purposes etc. and Miscellanous



A. Applications

I. Application of Technologies
II. Application of Vehicles



B. Purposes and Uses

I. Environment Cleaning
II. General Purpose of Technologies



C. Environments

I. Environment of Space Technologies



D. Artifacts

I. Artificial Planets, Moons, Systems



E. Miscellanous

I. Miscellanous

I completed the contents table by Special Contents: Planet-related .

This is limited to Technology-threads related to planets and provides another perspective, new links and connection between threads, topics etc.

It might be interesting for discussing colonization etc..

Also it directs the view to the destinations of vehilces - or at least some of the destinations.



Dipl.-Volkswirt (bdvb) Augustin (Political Economist)