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Xirnium Aeronautics and Space Agency

Xirnium
09-01-2006, 03:17
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Xirniumite Aeronautics and Space Agency
Vision for the future

Archangel Project
The Archangel VI is the largest and most complex Xirniumite scientific project in history. Expected to be completed by 2008 (with construction commencing this year), the station will represent an unprecedented move off-planet, and will dwarf the International Space Station (measuring 200 metres across and 180 metres long).

The station will be equipped with 15 state-of-the-art research laboratories, which will be able to exploit the unique microgravity environment. The station will also serve as a refuel and refit location for other spacecraft.

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Wayfarer Projects
A vast host of assignments are currently in final planing stages with the objective of studying the harsh and strange environments of our solar system. Particular interest will be paid to Mars and the Moon, in preparation for manned expeditions to those celestial bodies later this decade.

Advanced robotic rovers and orbital reconnaissance vehicles will be sent to Mars by the end of March this year. Other worlds to be studied include but are not limited to Venus, Titan, Io and Europa.

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Pilgrim Project
The Pilgrim probes, to be launched later this year, will be the first interstellar spacecraft to be deployed by Holy Xirnium. Their mission will be to explore the outer planets of the Solar System (particularly Uranus and Neptune) before exploring the outermost edge of the Sun’s domain, the heliopause. Following this, they shall plunge into deep space, leaving our solar system behind forever.

Follow-on missions being contemplated include missions to nearby star systems.

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Future missions?
The Xirniumite Aeronautics and Space Agency is committed to programs that will see manned expeditions to both the Moon and Mars by early next decade. Further goals have been made to begin establishing permanent settlements off-planet by the end of the century and to begin manned missions to the most distant reaches of the Solar System and beyond within two hundred years.

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Space Technologists
13-01-2006, 23:16
From the Master Technologist's office:

Our nation's engineers have broad and deep expertise in propulsion systems, as well as mission planning. Our advanced planning groups have studied time and again the issues involved in sending manned and unmanned missions to Mars and have good knowledge of the trajectories available to Mars, and what sort of propulsion technologies are suitable for your manned craft and cargo/science craft.

We have developed and tested several new chemical propulsion systems, and have developed several working full-scale prototypes of electrical and nuclear systems. We have not yet tested these in space themselves, however, our preliminary results indicate that these non-chemical systems would be well-suited to intrasolar exploration and travel... far reducing the mass and travel times of existing systems.

These would be highly applicable to your manned space and extra-solar needs.

Our scientists and engineers have been studying your proposals, and are eager to meet with your nation's scientists on this issue. Simply send the word and we will send our delegation to begin discussions!

Nikolai Kartoom
Master Technologist
Ministry of External Technical Development - Federation of Space Technologists