D) ORBITAL SERVICE STATION
The “Orbital Service Station” should be a hub that fuel tanks and “Boost Vehicles” can be firmly connected to and spun up to a few tenths of a “g” for recovering the left over fuel. There can be four or six positions on the “Fuel Depot” two of them permanently connected to a couple of fuel tanks to store the recovered fuel for later use.
Among the fuels stored at the “Fuel Depot” would be the standard Fuel Compound, The standard Oxidizer and Hydrogen Peroxide for the various requirements of the vehicles in need of refueling while in orbit.
The axis that the “Fuel Depot” should rotate around and be pointed directly toward the Space Station for safety reasons or be firmly fixed to the Space Station by a long truss to hold it in position.
E) PROCESSING MACHINES
The “Processing Machines” will have to be designed to gather the regolith and separate the various compounds for refinement later at the facility designated to do the separation process. After processing the metals into “slugs” of the base metal and storing the gases in storage tanks designed to hold them, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Helium, etc.
The initial design work for some of these machines has already been done. Further design work will make the process more economical and faster to complete.
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