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Shackleton Energy Company

Shackleton Energy Company is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Shackleton Energy Company rather than just read about it. In short: Shackleton Energy Company was a Texas company (2007–mid-2010s) formed to build equipment and technologies necessary for mining the Moon. They failed to secure funding and have met no public milestones.

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Reference excerpt

Shackleton Energy Company was a Texas company (2007–mid-2010s) formed to build equipment and technologies necessary for mining the Moon. They failed to secure funding and have met no public milestones.

History Shackleton was formed in 2007 in Del Valle, Texas to build equipment and technologies necessary for mining the Moon. Shackleton Energy was a subsidiary of Piedra-Sombra Corporation until March 2011, when it was incorporated as an independent C-corporation in the State of Texas. In November 2011, Shackleton announced an intent to undertake lunar prospecting, but failed to secure funding and met no public milestones. Shackleton began a US$1.2 million crowdfunding campaign in November 2011 for seed funding, working with crowdfunding partner RocketHub. but was unsuccessful and raised less than US$6,000 (0.46%) of the US$1.2 million goal.

Proposed Project phasing The company planned in 2011 to develop an "industrial astronaut corps" that would select individuals who have many of the characteristics of previous explorers—such as Ernest Shackleton, Edmund Hillary and Lewis and Clark, and stated that they could have humans stationed on the Moon by March 2021. In the belief that significant reserves of ice would be located, the company had hoped to establish a network of "refueling service stations" in low Earth orbit (LEO) and on the Moon to process and provide fuel and consumables for commercial and government customers. Shackleton planned to use that on-orbit logistics infrastructure to build a fuel-processing operation on the lunar surface and in propellant depots in LEO. Their equipment was stated to be designed to melt the ice and purify the water, "electrolyze the water into gaseous hydrogen and oxygen, and could condense the gases into liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen and also process them into hydrogen peroxide, all of which could be used as rocket fuels. Should other volatiles like ammonia or methane be discovered, they, too, would be processed into fuel, fertilizer, and other useful products." They stated that the economics that would make the enterprise potentially profitable are based on the relatively low costs of getting fuels and other consumables from the Moon into low Earth orbit, because "such a haul requires just 1/14th to 1/20th of the fuel it takes to bring material up from Earth." Shackleton originally planned a phased project through 2020. Their plans were funding dependent on a raise in early 2013. However, funding was not secured. There have been no updates as to their progress.

2012–2014: Systems planning and enterprise planning were to happen . 2014: Robotic precursor missions, lasting two to three years, were projected to begin as early as 2014. 2014 (concurrent): Establish prototyping and engineering infrastructure in LEO to test interchangeable modules. Establish production-scale equipment and transport vehicles, both in LEO and on the surface of the Moon. Once the lunar polar base confirmed and equipment is landed, human teams follow to monitor and operate facility for water ice extraction.

See also Asteroid mining Exogeology Geology of the Moon Inspiration Mars Foundation Lunar resources Lunar water Moon Express Private spaceflight Propellant depot Space colonization

References

External links Shackleton Energy Company website Archived 2017-10-14 at the Wayback Machine Stone Aerospace company website "Exclusive: Shackleton Energy Company Launches Plan for First Lunar Mining Operation" Archived 2011-11-13 at the Wayback Machine—Parabolic Arc article

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Shackleton Energy Company

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Shackleton Energy Company claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In physics, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Shackleton Energy Company before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Shackleton Energy Company ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Shackleton Energy Company

In research: Shackleton Energy Company appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Shackleton Energy Company in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Shackleton Energy Company is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2007 establishments in Texas, 2010 disestablishments in Texas, Aerospace companies of the United States, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Shackleton Energy Company outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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