ORIONTWO PROJECT: EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL RESOURCES EXPLOITATION TO ESCAPE THE EARTH GRAVITY WELL

Alexander Mayboroda
AVANTA Consulting
ORIONTWO PROJECT:
EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL RESOURCES
EXPLOITATION TO ESCAPE THE
EARTH GRAVITY WELL
Moscow Space Club
April 9, 2015

Aerospace Technology Crisis
• In 1964 Serguey Korolev promised: “Soon
regular people will regularly fly into space for
their holidays”.
• In 2015 only billionaires can afford space
flights.
• As for the price of cargo delivery, it is still high:
from $ 10 000 / kg to $ 50 000 / kg depending
on the orbit.
• Such high prices deter space industrialization
and commercialization.
• When cargo delivery prices fall to $ 3 000 / kg,
semiconductors production on the orbit will
surpass $ 100 billion / year.
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Aerospace Technology Crisis
• Rockets have led the way into space: the first satellite, the
first flight of Yuri Gagarin, Lunokhods-moon rovers and
astronauts’ landing on the Moon, the Venus and the Mars
exploration, comets and far-away planets research, etc.
• But rockets on chemical fuel have limited capacity. It is
necessary to find a replacement for them.
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Orion Project is a Way to Solve the Problem
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Cargo delivery price to the orbit is around $150 / kg.

Cargo delivery price to the orbit is around $150 / kg.

• Originally Orion was a manned
nuclear-impulse spacecraft
developed in the USA in 1950s-
1960s.
• Orion spacecraft engine works on
the energy of nuclear reactions.
• Economic featured of Orion project
were so good that the Moon, the
Mars and the Jupiter could have
been colonized during the previous
century.
• But ecological features of the
system were terrifying and have led
to the project’s shut-down.

The project OrionTwo - is the
solution of Orion`s problems
• In Orion project the spacecraft is driven by
shock waves of nuclear explosions.
• In the OrionTwo project substance flows are
used instead of nuclear explosions at the low-
earth orbit with the speed of the flow exceeding
first cosmic velocity.
• The substance flows are created by spacecraft
from materials of asteroids, the Moon, the earth
atmosphere and other planets.
• Energy consumption to create such propellant
substance flows is tens and hundreds times
less than the energy they acquire in the end of
their fall into the earth gravity well and
consequently the energy they give to the
accelerating space vehicles is tens and
hundreds times more than the energy
consumed.
Substance flow direction
V = 7900 … 12000 m/s

Propellant Flow Types for OrionTwo System
Suborbital reusable rockets vertically lift capsules with cargoes and
passengers into the propellant flows.
The capsules have «sails», the latter being ablative
shields, that accelerate the capsules to the first
cosmic velocity under the influence of propellant
particles impact effect with the pressure of 5-50 Bar.

Propellant Flow Sources for OrionTwo
System
• The basic source of propellant flow is orbital substance
collector that captures substances from atmosphere like
PROFAC and PHARO systems or from gaseous and
aerosol media on its way like ORBITRON system.
• In future, apart from Earth substance collectors, the Mars
and the Venus gas collectors will be used as well. The
collectors will be delivered to the Earth by interplanetary
transportation vehicles and then the gases will be used to
produce propellant flows.
The direction of flow. The capsule.

System
• Another source of propellant is automatic
transportation-production complexes on the Moon
or asteroids close-by that use regolith components
including water resources.
The direction of flow. The capsule.

System

System
• Before the Moon resources are utilized, propellant can be produced from
Easily Retrievable Object Asteroid Group. The group is easy to reach,
and cargo spacecraft require speed of less than 500 m/sec to return to
the Earth.
Flying to them easier than to the Moon.
• Later, resources of the Phobos , the Deimos and Trojan asteroids of the
Mars and the Jupiter can be utilized since their orbits are located in the
ecliptic plane.

System
• The Moon regolith utilization to create propellant flows at the bottom of the Earth
gravity well at the altitude of 120-200 km produces 20 times more kinetic energy
than the energy needed to lift the regolith from the Moon gravity well.
• Regolith from the asteroids moving towards the Earth utilization allows hundred
times more efficient energy production over energy consumption.

Kinetic Engine as a Machine to Utilize
Potential Energy of Celestial Bodies
Legend:
• 1 – engine hull;
• 2 – chamber bottom with ablative and auxiliary
substances;
• 3 – engine chamber;
• 4 – cooling system;
• 5 – engine’s nozzle;
• 6 – incoming high-speed track (ribbon or tube) made of
moon or asteroid substances, for example.

Kinetic Engine as a Machine to Utilize
Potential Energy of Celestial Bodies
• Track (6) enters chamber (3) of kinetic engine located in the rear part
of the vehicle. It endures impact deceleration in gaseous media of the
chamber (2), the latter being covered with ablative covering and
supplied with auxiliary buffer substances.
• The impact leads to the track substance evaporation and the formed
gas emission towards the rear end of the chamber through the conical
nozzle (5) of the engine.
• As a result, we get a reactive stream accelerating the vehicle.
• In the terminology of theoretical physics, elastic collision is used here.

Experimental Basis for OrionTwo System
• Spacecraft launch by low-
density flow from space is an
almost complete analogue to
atmospheric deceleration of
the spacecraft.
• Sails or ablative shields
stability of the spacecraft is
tested by Orion Project on the
models driven by :
- chemical explosions;
- thermonuclear explosions.

Suborbital reusable rockets and rocket-planes are
off-the-shelf parts for OrionTwo System
Lynx Space Transportation System.
Mission life of 5 000 launches. Launching frequency of every four hours.

Videos of OrionTwo Conceptual Working Schemes
• Lunar material for OrionTwo (2 min 22 sec)
https://youtu.be/GtymC1ZysrU
• OrionTwo - Орион II (1 min 11 sec)
https://youtu.be/zcOhK5Yo4eM
• OrionTwo Stream (1 min 15 sec)
https://youtu.be/wEJCYrpXKX0
• Astrojet Project (8 min 50 sec)
https://youtu.be/PLR-SUHp04w

Patents
• Method and system of jet engine feeding. Patents of Russia
RU2385275, Ukraine 100625, Belarus ЕАPО 018524.
• Method of energy supply to space apparatuses–collectors. Patent of
Russia RU2451631.
• Energy supply method for spacecraft-accumulators. Patent Application
US 2013/0233974 A1.
• Method and system for feeding jet engines. Patent application
US2014/0326832 A1.

Patents
• Method and system for feeding
jet engines US patent application
is pending.
• Detailed action on the claims that
are currently pending and under
consideration is received from the
US Patent and Trademark Office
in April 2015 .
• Micro investment is required to
pay for patent counsel work on
the answer to the US Patent and
Trademark Office.

Patents
• Method and system for delivering cargoes into space. US 8882047 B2.
Status: Grant of patent is intended
• Method for delivering cargoes into space and a system for implementation of same.
EP2390188
Status: Grant of patent is intended (Great Britain, Germany, France).
• Способ доставки грузов в космос и система его осуществления. Патент России
RU2398717
• Способ доставки грузов в космос и система его осуществления. Патент ЕАПО 017577
• Спосіб доставки вантажів в космос і система його здійснення. Патент Украины 99230
• Способ энергообеспечения космических аппаратов-накопителей. Патент России
RU2451631
• Energy supply method for spacecrafts-accumulators. Патентная заявка US 2013/0233974
A1
• Method and system for feeding jet engines. Патентная заявка US 2014/0326832 A1

Commercialization: OrionTwo Space
Transportation System Licenses To Sell
• During the first stage of the project commercialization, AVANTA
Consulting plans to:
- sell licenses in the countries where Orbitron® technology, the key
component to OrionTwo Project, is patented (the USA, the UK,
Germany, France, Russia, etc);
- sell franchises in other countries that have no patent covering
legislation;
• During the second stage of the project commercialization, AVANTA
Consulting plans to produce and sell:
- land-based components of the system;
- spare and wear parts, operating supplies and key elements of the
orbital part of the system to be installed on the customers’ units.

Transportation System (STS) and Space
Technology
• Cargo transportation for satellite solar power station construction:
- Within the Japanese Solarbird program of $ 24 billion per year;
- Within the similar Chinese program of $ 24 billion per year;
• Carbon energy sources replacement by space energy sources by the
end of the 21st century.

Transportation System (STS) and Space
Technology
• Photoelectric converters market of $100 billion
per year;
• Including thin-film solar batteries production
market of $ 25 billion per year.

Commercialization: OrionTwo STS and
Space Tourism

Required Investment
• Project stages:
- Front-end detail design definition;
- Computer modelling;
- Kinetic engine spacecraft demo model production, tests and retrofit;
- Micro-satellite version of the spacecraft production for space trials, its
retrofit.
• Required Funds:
- $ 1 000 000 including $ 500 000 from a private investor in addition
to $ 500 000 from Skolkovo Investment Fund for the period of two years.
- The investor receives the start-up’s equity capital share of 25%.

Potential Partners
• Planetary Resources
• Deep Space Industries
• Virgin Galactic
• SpaceX
• Bigelow Aerospace
• Boeing Company
• EADS Astrium
• Mitsubishi Corp.
• Shimizu Corp.
• TSNIIMASH (Central Scientific Research Institute of Machine Building)TSNIIMASH (Central Scientific Research Institute of Machine Building)
• Space Research Institute of the Academy of SciencesSpace Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences
• United Institute of High Temperatures: Mathematic models for shock andUnited Institute of High Temperatures: Mathematic models for shock and
impact processesimpact processes
• Institute of Semiconductor Physics of Siberian Department of RussianInstitute of Semiconductor Physics of Siberian Department of Russian
Academy of Sciences and Russian Space Agency: ОКА-Т technologicalAcademy of Sciences and Russian Space Agency: ОКА-Т technological
modulemodule
• Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. BaumanMoscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman
• State Space Research and Production Center named after M. Khrunichev:State Space Research and Production Center named after M. Khrunichev:
MRKC-1 suborbital demonstratorMRKC-1 suborbital demonstrator
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Support Team
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Vladimir Migel
Alexander Mayboroda
Dmitry DragunDmitry Dragun
Vitaly MelnikovVitaly Melnikov
Oleg PchelyakovOleg Pchelyakov
Vadim FrolovVadim Frolov
Alexander Popov
Denis Anisimov
Yury Lebedev Victor Korovin

Summary
• The developed system guarantees radical price
reduction on space cargoes delivery.
• Cost saving provides additional profit in the sphere of
cargo and passenger trnsportation into space.
• The project team is looking for partners for the project’s
commercialization.
• AVANTA Consulting welcomes potential partners to
negotiate collaboration on commercialization of
OrionTwo Project.

Thank you for your attention
Contact information:
• Alexander Mayboroda
• AVANTA Consulting
• Address: 150 Bolshaya Sadovaya St.,
office 909, Rostov-on-Don, 344000, Russia.
• Tel.: +7 (863) 221 73 71, +7 (863) 263 32 94
• E-mail: mayboro@gmail.com
• Web-site: www.mayboroda.com

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