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The Damage to Lunar Orbiting Spacecraft Caused by the Ejecta of Lunar Landers
Philip T. Metzger, James G. Mantovani
This manuscript analyzes lunar lander soil erosion models and trajectory models to calculate how much damage will occur to spacecraft orbiting in the vicinity of the Moon. The soil…
Measuring the Fidelity of Asteroid Regolith and Cobble Simulants
Philip T. Metzger, Daniel T. Britt, Stephen Covey +5
NASA has developed a "Figure of Merit" method to grade the fidelity of lunar simulants for scientific and engineering purposes. Here we extend the method to grade asteroid simulant…
Affordable, Rapid Bootstrapping of the Space Industry and Solar System Civilization
Philip T. Metzger, Anthony Muscatello, Robert P. Mueller +1
Advances in robotics and additive manufacturing have become game-changing for the prospects of space industry. It has become feasible to bootstrap a self-sustaining, self-expanding…