Engineer Marius and his people are doing a roaring trade in satellite repair and reclamation from their base in Earth Orbit. But then an emergency call comes in. A dozen Chinese miners are stranded in a colony on the Moon. Can he and his apprentice Corinne build a ship and rescue the colony before a solar storm wipes them all out? See the solution they design, and follow them as they lead the colony to a new stage in humanity's spread into space.
Engineer Marius and his people are doing a roaring trade in satellite repair and reclamation from their base in Earth Orbit. But then an emergency cal...
Engineer Marius and his people are doing a roaring trade in satellite repair and reclamation from their base in Earth Orbit. But then an emergency call comes in. A dozen Chinese miners are stranded in a colony on the Moon. Can he and his apprentice Corinne build a ship and rescue the colony before a solar storm wipes them all out? See the solution they design, and follow them as they lead the colony to a new stage in humanity's spread into space.
Engineer Marius and his people are doing a roaring trade in satellite repair and reclamation from their base in Earth Orbit. But then an emergency cal...
Lisa liked a quiet, straightforward life in the space station at Terpsichore. Used to handling drunks and other minor skirmishes, she is not expecting any surprises. But when sent to investigate a free floating object in the hold, she finds herself drawn into solving a mystery and leading a team to a secret colony where women and children are kept as slaves. This is hard science fiction, set in the near future, where space travel is difficult and takes many months. Colonists invent and build their own equipment from local materials. While truly isolated, they are part of a movement aiming to...
Lisa liked a quiet, straightforward life in the space station at Terpsichore. Used to handling drunks and other minor skirmishes, she is not expecting...
Lisa and her team of asteroid police have captured a nuclear rocket, and rescued a dozen kidnapped children. They need to return the children to Mars, but first they need to build a ship. The rebel colony of Feronia is on their way, taken over by Christian fundamentalists. Can they return it to civilization, and what kind of government will lead to a long-term peace?
Lisa and her team of asteroid police have captured a nuclear rocket, and rescued a dozen kidnapped children. They need to return the children to Mars,...
It seems like a routine tourist trip, taking wealthy guests to the luxury hotel in orbit. But Danish engineers Marius and Abby do not look like tourists, in their plain coveralls. The rich industrialist and his family seem to fit the part better. Everyone on this trip has other plans in mind, plans that will lead to the next big step in humanity's spread beyond our home planet. Set fifteen years in the future, inspired by the engineering cooperative Copenhagen Suborbitals, and relying only on realistic technology, Spacetug is founded on the belief that humanity's future in space depends on...
It seems like a routine tourist trip, taking wealthy guests to the luxury hotel in orbit. But Danish engineers Marius and Abby do not look like touris...
The spread of humanity into the Solar System is a practical possibility for the next few decades, beginning with the reusable launch vehicles being developed right now by SpaceX and others. Once that first step is economical, private companies will disrupt space using available technologies. With generic tools, and engineers who know how to use them, they will build ships and stations from the materials they find in space. This book shows how that might be, with illustrations and technical details for everything they build. It is a 'science-of' book, laying out the technical assumptions and...
The spread of humanity into the Solar System is a practical possibility for the next few decades, beginning with the reusable launch vehicles being de...
The spread of humanity into the Solar System is a practical possibility for the next few decades, beginning with the reusable launch vehicles being developed right now by SpaceX and others. Once that first step is economical, private companies will disrupt space using technologies that are available right now. With generic tools, and engineers who know how to use them, they will build ships and stations from the materials they find in space. This book shows how that might be, with illustrations and technical details for everything they build. It is a 'science-of' book, laying out the...
The spread of humanity into the Solar System is a practical possibility for the next few decades, beginning with the reusable launch vehicles being de...
My name is Corinne Hansen, and I'm an engineer. If you live on Earth, you think that's a desk job, designing things with computers for a robot to build, a thousand miles away. But I live in space. We do design things, but then we build them ourselves. When they break, we fix them. The things we make aren't meant to be pretty, or to make money. If I make something wrong, a pipe or a valve, a ship or a station, it can kill me. Kill everyone I love. So I'm careful. But if I make everything right, and we're lucky, we travel to a place nobody has ever been before. And we make a new life together....
My name is Corinne Hansen, and I'm an engineer. If you live on Earth, you think that's a desk job, designing things with computers for a robot to buil...
