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[Interview] How The Moon's Bumpy Gravitational Field Can Help Launch Things From Its Surface
44 minutes Posted Nov 18, 2024 at 7:00 pm.
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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
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.07487
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