{"id":42,"date":"1994-09-05T11:03:20","date_gmt":"1994-09-05T09:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bussink.ch\/erik\/usenet-groups\/et-reuse-wasquestions\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T15:57:57","slug":"et-reuse-wasquestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"ET reuse (was:questions…)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In <CvE5wt.…<\/a>@brunel.ac.uk> cs91…<\/a>@brunel.ac.uk (Erik Bussink<\/strong>) writes:<\/p>\n

>I know that the 2 small booster of the shuttle fall in the sea and are reused,
\n>but what happens to the big one ? does it burn on re-entry ? And at what
\n>altitude does the shuttle separets itself from it ?
\n>I wanted to know if, you increased the powert hat booster gives, and the
\n>shuttle takes it in LEO, maybe these boosters could be stocked in LEO and
\n>reused as storage tanks for a space station, or could then be transformed
\n>for crew sleeping quarters… just an idea… \ud83d\ude09
\n—————-snip<\/p>\n

>Erik Bussink Comp Science year 4 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 |o———o| Summer 1994 placement at
\n>Brunel University (West London) UK\u00a0\u00a0|o Brunel \u00a0o| \u00a0ESAG informatik & cons.
\n>Email Internet: cs91…<\/a>@brunel.ac.uk \u00a0 |o Film \u00a0 \u00a0o| \u00a0Fasanenstrasse 121 \u00a0
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\nSome years ago I did a painting on the use of the ET as raw material. After some
\nweeks of study of the think-tank reports on the possibility of carrying the ET
\ninto stable orbit and the direct use of the tank in various configurations, I
\narrived at a design for a solar powered cold-to-cold recycling facility that turns
\nthe ET’s thousands of pounds of aluminum directly into structural components for
\nlarge scale assemblies in orbit. The problem of coralling the tanks had to be worked
\nout so a “Tank Farm” was devised to hold them in one place near the work site and
\nprovide living facilities during construction.
\nThe painting is titled “The New Colonists” after the recycling station’s following in
\nthe footsteps of the colonial’s apple peeler. It was published in Discover Magazine
\nand later picked up by AT&T Science & Technology Week on CNN. Rather than melt an
\nentire tank all at once, as some of the studies suggested, the station rotates the
\ntank under a focused beam of sunlight from a large deployable reflector, peeling off
\na 2″ ribbon of aluminum that is fed into the extrusion jaws of a composite beam
\nbuilder, creating a low mass structural beam from the tank’s 2″+ thick skin.<\/p>\n

It was an interesting project and I hope to see some variant of it come to fruition.
\nThere are quite a few really exciting ideas that are imperative we pursue if we can
\nonly catch the fire again and not let it become extinguished by apathy. There is
\nmore at stake than can be justified by mere $ .
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