electromagneticpulse
2005-May-12, 10:19 PM
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I've read a bit about this idea but the only mention was in the extremely unstable Earth-Moon system, which gets thrown out majorly by the Earth-Sun system intercepting. Anywhere here's mine for interplanetary systems:
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The Lagrange points would make perfect places for communication relays. (see image link) the right hand planet can be any you choose and the left can be another but we’ll call the inner (right) one P1 and the other P2.
The sun is in between P1 and P2 meaning communication is completely blocked and will be for an area around the radius of the sun as there is too much background interference to listen to a radio band message when near the sun and there are other problems like solar flairs etc. interrupting the message. So communication could easily be blocked out for several weeks especially as both planets are moving in the same direction means the opposite planet would appear to linger behind the sun. This communication blackout could be deadly in a bad situation and bad situations always happen when you least want them.
A communication relay in P1’s L4 or L5 would be able to keep in constant communication with P2 as they would never both experience a blackout, the only situation would be if there was a third planet that interrupted communication between P1’s L4 and P2. Now assuming there was two blackouts, the signal could be routed to P2’s L4 or L5 and then onto the planet. Either way it would be possible to use the Lagrange point relay system to avoid any communication blackout, it may just apply a slightly longer relay time.
The Lagrange point relay system could also be used to transfer information more efficiently. One problem with communication in space is that the longer the distance the less information can be transferred as it can be lost through the radiation beam diffusing. If P1 could communicate with P2 more information would be lost than between P1 and its own L4, taking this into consideration P1’s L4 is closer to P2’s L4 than the planet itself so another wider band of information could be transmitted. The longer communications lag wouldn’t interfere with information transfers as the start time wouldn’t be delayed by a significant amount unless this system was transported to the outer planets where light already takes a long time to travel to.
I haven’t proposed communications satellites for L1, L2 or L3 because they are unstable Lagrange points and would require more fuel to stay in position, however the use of the ‘intergalactic superhighways’ should be employed to transport the satellites to and from the Lagrange points so that maximum satellite space can be used for electronic equipment rather than fuel for transport. Using the superhighways for transport would enable all Lagrange points to be used for satellites so that they can be repaired at a ‘home base’ it would also make the satellites reusable and therefore cheaper.
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Well that's it :)
I've read a bit about this idea but the only mention was in the extremely unstable Earth-Moon system, which gets thrown out majorly by the Earth-Sun system intercepting. Anywhere here's mine for interplanetary systems:
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The Lagrange points would make perfect places for communication relays. (see image link) the right hand planet can be any you choose and the left can be another but we’ll call the inner (right) one P1 and the other P2.
The sun is in between P1 and P2 meaning communication is completely blocked and will be for an area around the radius of the sun as there is too much background interference to listen to a radio band message when near the sun and there are other problems like solar flairs etc. interrupting the message. So communication could easily be blocked out for several weeks especially as both planets are moving in the same direction means the opposite planet would appear to linger behind the sun. This communication blackout could be deadly in a bad situation and bad situations always happen when you least want them.
A communication relay in P1’s L4 or L5 would be able to keep in constant communication with P2 as they would never both experience a blackout, the only situation would be if there was a third planet that interrupted communication between P1’s L4 and P2. Now assuming there was two blackouts, the signal could be routed to P2’s L4 or L5 and then onto the planet. Either way it would be possible to use the Lagrange point relay system to avoid any communication blackout, it may just apply a slightly longer relay time.
The Lagrange point relay system could also be used to transfer information more efficiently. One problem with communication in space is that the longer the distance the less information can be transferred as it can be lost through the radiation beam diffusing. If P1 could communicate with P2 more information would be lost than between P1 and its own L4, taking this into consideration P1’s L4 is closer to P2’s L4 than the planet itself so another wider band of information could be transmitted. The longer communications lag wouldn’t interfere with information transfers as the start time wouldn’t be delayed by a significant amount unless this system was transported to the outer planets where light already takes a long time to travel to.
I haven’t proposed communications satellites for L1, L2 or L3 because they are unstable Lagrange points and would require more fuel to stay in position, however the use of the ‘intergalactic superhighways’ should be employed to transport the satellites to and from the Lagrange points so that maximum satellite space can be used for electronic equipment rather than fuel for transport. Using the superhighways for transport would enable all Lagrange points to be used for satellites so that they can be repaired at a ‘home base’ it would also make the satellites reusable and therefore cheaper.
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Well that's it :)