Mirror Swarm

This is the first costs projection.

A lot of vocabulary can be gleaned from the attached study done by NASA ten years ago, laying out "Architectures and objectives trade space evaluated for cost, risk, performance" for a 22-day Mercury lander mission to sample the surface.

design a hardware fabrication package ("fab") to carry a bootstrap supply of refiners, builders, power generation, power distribution

design a control centre

specify and design surface remediation for the site once the swarm is deployed

when it all works on paper, build the fab and control centre ...

If we refine with isotope separation and lose all the gases to the environment, we will at some point permanently contaminate the vacuum on which the process relies. That will happen before the 1% swarm is complete. The numbers are on https://mirrorswarm.com/wiki/index.php/Chemistry

The vacuum is ...

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I'm thinking particularly of the microcontroller directing each minibot, of which there will end up being a large number made on site.

If anyone knows of open source hardware in this area, please make a note here and we'll follow it up. It needs to be capable of production on silicon, and surface ...

https://mirrorswarm.com/wiki

That is the planning site.

Add content there. Just use the edit links.

I just had to clear browser cookies to log back on here, I'm not sure why.

This is the forum at mirrorswarm.com/forum

The wiki is at mirrorswarm.com/wiki

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