Subject: Capabilities Enabled By Earth/Mars Waypoint Logistics
From: Daniel Adamo <[email-masked]>
To: "ATIG (L-Z)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:06:24 -0700

ATIG Members-

The attached preprint was submitted as a full-length paper to the journal Icarus last week.  It addresses how synodic-resonant Earth/Mars waypoints would be constructed and resupplied by Starship-class transports resembling crewed spacecraft visiting waypoints during routine Earth/Mars transits.  The preprint also focuses on planetary defense capability enabled by a repurposed Starship-class transport based at a waypoint as applied to potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 (see archive ATIG_156 at https://www.aiaahouston.org/adamo_astrodynamics/).

Reference [1] in the attachment documents fundamental waypoints research conducted over the past decade.  It now appears in print on pp. 999-1017 of AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets’ May 2025 issue.  A preprint of this publication can be obtained from archive ATIG_148 at https://www.aiaahouston.org/adamo_astrodynamics/.

-Dan