Report And Summary Of Research On Methods Of Investigating The Astrophysical State Of A Selected Star, Including Its Demise
- Paper number
IAC-08.A3.4.8
- Author
Dr. George Morgenthaler, United States
- Year
2008
- Abstract
1) Investigating the “death” of a selected Star has historically been achieved by accurately monitoring its demise from the Earth. Tycho Brahe and Johann Kepler personally saw the 1604 Star explosions! New technologies for investigating the destruction of a specific Star might require formation flying of several Spacecraft, each carrying special probing Ray Beam Generators. Such Space monitoring may be needed because significant planetary debris from that dying Star, from asteroids, or from other nearby dying Stars may confuse the data return from the selected Star by injecting spurious Space debris into that Space zone. 2) New interrogating Ray Beam Generators might be used successfully to return data to Earth. There may be a problem, however, if two of the Spacecraft carrying entirely different types of Ray Beam Generators interrogate the same Star at the same time. That may over-stimulate and confuse the data return and, even if the Ray Beam Generators are exactly the same, the Spacecraft carrying them will still have to maintain precision flight trajectories. This includes Star-pointing accuracy, particularly when the Astrophysical/Planetary Science Project being researched requires formation flying of several Ray Beam Generator-carrying Spacecraft. Such Spacecraft must not only maintain the maximum precision control of each Spacecraft’s flight and vehicle control variables at all times, but must also require maximum Spacecraft pointing flight stability. 3) If there were more than one type of Ray beam Generator, this situation might further possibly confuse data results of the experiments for the observing Astrophysical/Planetary scientists. 4) There must be strict Spacecraft trajectory positioning; strict pointing control/flight stability and resolving of any other Astronautical Engineering challenges. Lack of precision in any control area might likely ruin the data return. 5) Another challenging problem is how the Stars` activity and even the Stars` destruction data can be accurately returned to Earth, if and when several Star Ray Beam interrogations are being conducted at the same time. Might a precision-flying error or a Ray Beam pointing error confuse data response for the interrogating scientists? 6) This is a Report and Summary of new research done by various authors and contains several new Star demise possibilities conceived by me. 7) I affirm that I have not made other presentations of this subject, nor shall I do so before the Glasgow IAC if my paper is accepted. If accepted, I assure that I would present in Glasgow.
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