DiscoverUniverse Today Podcast[Interview] How The Moon's Bumpy Gravitational Field Can Help Launch Things From Its Surface
[Interview] How The Moon's Bumpy Gravitational Field Can Help Launch Things From Its Surface

[Interview] How The Moon's Bumpy Gravitational Field Can Help Launch Things From Its Surface

Update: 2024-11-18
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Moon has a non-uniform bumpy gravitational field. We can use these anomalies to launch stuff off the surface of the Moon with electromagnetic launchers. How exactly can we do it? Finding out in this interview.



🟣 Guest: Dr. Pekka Janhunen

https://www.mpe.mpg.de/person/18090/2169



📜 Launching mass from the Moon helped by lunar gravity anomalies

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09616



📜 Terraforming the dwarf planet: Interconnected and growable Ceres megasatellite world

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.07487



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[Interview] How The Moon's Bumpy Gravitational Field Can Help Launch Things From Its Surface

[Interview] How The Moon's Bumpy Gravitational Field Can Help Launch Things From Its Surface

Fraser Cain