From: vince@offshore.ai (Vincent Cate)
Newsgroups: sci.space.tech
Subject: Re: This is the most important CATS post ever!
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vince@offshore.ai (Vincent Cate) wrote in message news:<9186edb5.0311241336.5ee593ae@posting.google.com>...
> We like an EDT to boost momentum for the LEO tether and a solar sail 
> to boost momentum for the GEO tether.  The mass for the solar cells 
> for the EDT or the solar sail for the GEO tether are not all that bad.
> And once you have this infrastructure in place you could do a 
> reasonable sized payload (we work with 4,000 kg) every 90 minutes.  
> This looks like CATS to the Cates. :-)

We also plan that most of the traffic to the GEO hotel is round
trip tourists.  If the LEO-tether and GEO-tether are picking up 
10 tourists at the same time they are sending 10 tourists home, 
then there is no need for thrust (or regolith).  

Only once per day do we do one-way traffic.  We plan to open the 
hotel when only some of the rooms are finished and just let 
people stay for a shorter time.  For example, if 1/7th of the rooms 
are finished and the designed hotel capacity is for 1 week stays 
with the tether transport capacity, then the average stay can only 
be 1 day.  

And that 90 minutes should really be 100 (I often forget this).
The problem is that while the orbit is 90 minutes, the launch
site on Earth and the GEO-hotel you are tossing to rotate during 
this time.  So for things to line up again it takes an extra
10 minutes, for a total of about 100.

  -- Vince