1. Herakles Architecture Kinetic Energy is viewed as an in-situ resource. An Impulse Engine (formerly named a Recycler, or a CataMitt Recycler) is a large device that extracts kinetic energy from an arriving spacecraft, converts it into electricity via regenerative braking, and immediately applies that electricity to launch a partner spacecraft. This enables space hardware to shift from being primarily expendable to being primarily reusable in nature. While it has constraints, it also has a significant potential to reduce the cost of round trip space travel between select destinations, such as a Molniya orbit, geosynchronous orbit, and the Moon.

2. Impulse Engine Science Department, Cerritos High School Cerritos, CA 90703 paturek@earthlink.net By Philip A. Turek

3. ASAT Mission

5. IE Image

6. The big picture

7. Interface Plate With Interchangeable Berthing Cradles

9. Orbital Waltz

10. Progress_a farview

11. Progress Exchange

12. Low Operating Cost

13. Crew Rotation to a Lunar South Pole Base

14. Impulse Engines at Mars

15. Extending Impulse Engines to Mars Phobos Impulse Engine: Access 323 km low Mars orbit inclined 43 deg.  V 3.5 km/s from LEO to LMO. Deimos Impulse Engine: Access 297 km low Mars orbit inclined 80 deg.  V 3.7 km/s from LEO to LMO

16. Extending IEs to Asteroids

17. Electrostatic Radiation Shielding

18. A Manned Base

22. Why Are There Grooves on Phobos?

23. Andromeda

24. Outreach

25. IE Research Community We’re Building Our Future in Space