💎🌕 L1 Diamond Stabilizer
Kardashev range: 0.8–1.8
A diamond-shaped Earth-Moon L1 structure could use internal mass shifting and tidal quadrupole behavior as a stabilization method instead of paying for continual propellant stationkeeping.
Notes
The diamond stabilizer is a specific form of a concept I dreamed about for years, without being able to put into a form. AI did somewhat help me with this, but it cannot actually advance it on its own.
The broader idea, which I asked about on Physics Stack Exchange long ago, is that you use a pole like a tightrope walker. If you go off balance, you move the pole to restore your position. This solves a real problem of keeping you centered around an unstable orbit.
I still have a lot of improvements to make in the simulation to give a better intuitive feel. The numerical models I have are kind of ugly to follow and do not help develop intuition the way they are run.
Links
- L1 diamond and nitrogen factory post - I do not think the writing is very good yet; it is more of a TODO.
- Orbital shape sim on GitHub