[Interview] How The Moon's Bumpy Gravitational Field Can Help Launch Things From Its Surface
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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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• 00:00 Intro

• 02:51 Electrostatic sail updates

• 07:15 Launching stuff from the Moon

• 14:46 Finding trajectories

• 18:44 Practical applications

• 30:56 Mining Ceres

• 38:32 Future of humanity

• 42:53 More interviews

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