Dear interested parties in the Asteroids project,

thanks for considering a participation in the project. Please find below a draft how a hypothetical budget of 8.4 trillion (= 8400 bn) would be splitted to meet the requirements of the first project phase which objective is taking high-resolution 3D images of presumably several millions asteroids (also called minor planets) in a time frame of about 42 years (2018 to 2060).

The high level structure splits the project in a preparation and in an operation phase:

• Phase-1: preparation, ~21 years, 4.2 trillion [4200 bn]
• Phase-2: operation, ~21 years, 4.2 trillion [4200 bn]

PREPARATION:

There will be seven teams working in parallel during the preparation phase. Those teams will have different percentages of female and male members:

• Team-1: ~50% female / ~50% male [600 bn]
• Team-2: ~67% female / ~33% male [600 bn]
• Team-3: ~33% female / ~67% male [600 bn]
• Team-4: ~75% female / ~25% male [600 bn]
• Team-5: ~25% female / ~75% male [600 bn]
• Team-6: ~80% female / ~20% male [600 bn]
• Team-7: ~20% female / ~80% male [600 bn]

The idea is to have different core competences developed in each team over time while starting with the same general goal. The main tasks for each team are as follows:

• Task-1: monitor asteroids' orbits from Earth/Earth obit and refine their ephemerides continuously [60 bn]
• Task-2: develop a method for fast space travel inside our solar system (~1 day back and forth) [180 bn]
• Task-3: develop a spaceship prototype for travelling inside our solar system upto beyond the Kuiper belt [360 bn]

Task-1 will require each team building observatories and launching satellites with optical telescopes. The observatories' locations will be selected for good seeing conditions in order to take digital images of the moving asteroids' light points on the star background during the decades of project run. A major effort will be software development that implements a multilingual communication network for having all operators on Earth based observatories and those working for space based telescopes, collaborate seamlessly for getting high precision data of the asteroids' orbits around our Sun during task-1 as well as for the collaboration of all project members during subsequent tasks.

Task-2 encompasses a review of available physical principles for fast space travel in our solar system. Each team will select one favorable method for developing a practical technology. Basically, all considered methods need to decouple a spacecraft on quantum level for example from surrounding electromagnetic as well as gravitational impact that is known from conventional physical laws. All information about chosen direction of research and development as well as experimental results will be published regularly at least every nine months in order to maintain a synergy between the teams and to let interested observers know about the progress in the project.

Task-3 aims at implementing chosen method and physical principles for developing and building intended spacecraft. The main challenge will be material science to get multi-functional materials that can be programmed for decoupling the volume of a spacecraft from surrounding environment and for accellerating the spaceship at arbitrary high velocity against our terrestrial frame. Additionally, an instant communication needs to be developed for information exchange between Earth and the crews during operation phase.

OPERATION:

There will be almost two thousand crews of about eight crew members who will travel to the asteroids' locations for taking high-resolution 3D images. The costs of 2 bn for each crew will be splitted as follows:

• Item-1: manufacturing a spaceship [1800 m]
• Item-2: equipment and maintenance [180 m]
• Item-3: staff payroll and others [20 m]

Item-1 aims for replicating one of previously developed spaceship designs which will serve a crew of about eight members for travelling our solar system during more than 20 years during the operation phase of the project. Those spaceships will be further used when it comes to rebuilding the planet that the asteroids constituted before the planet's destruction.

Item-2 encompasses the costs for supplying the spaceship with the needed equipment for taking high-resolution 3D images from an asteroid as well as for maintaining a good state of that spaceship during more than twenty years operation time. Those costs as well encompass payments for ground services and service stations.

Item-3 refers to all expenses related to staff members in all roles in the project. Besides payroll this encompasses all services and opportunities that the project offers to employees like health care, recreation, education, space travel for fun inside our solar system and others.

All collected 3D images from millions of asteroids will be processed by five image processing teams on all continents for estimating a 3D model of a planet that potentially can be built from the material of the asteroids:

• Model-1: Africa - estimating a 3D model of a new planet between Mars and Jupiter [~42 bn]
• Model-2: America - estimating a 3D model of a new planet between Mars and Jupiter [~42 bn]
• Model-3: Asia - estimating a 3D model of a new planet between Mars and Jupiter [~42 bn]
• Model-4: Australia - estimating a 3D model of a new planet between Mars and Jupiter [~42 bn]
• Model-5: Europe - estimating a 3D model of a new planet between Mars and Jupiter [~42 bn]

This fourth draft aims at aligning the budget with Earth population mid of first project phase (x1000) and it replaces the third draft which had 4.2 bn of a hypothetical financial budget. Hopefully, the information may help to get a feeling what the Asteroids project is aiming for and what detail activities will be needed when looking at the project from top view.

Please feel free to contribute with more ideas, preferably by a Signal communication.

Thanks and kind regards,

Eckhard Kantz
Project initiator/coordinator

SURVEY

UPDATES

Update 2023-10-24:

Israel has been removed from the Asteroids project and Iran lost the candidate state because there is no visible concept available for a longterm peaceful solution of the Mideast conflict.

Update 2023-09-20:

A seating bench for the waiting area has been designed and perfectly manufactured by Stefan. Thank you Stefan!

Departure and arrival is intended to take place in a pentagonal area (a= 18 m) for transporters with a size upto 30 ft. (10 m) length or diameter.

Spacetime distortions caused by the transporters' propulsion system will be measured by a 3D spacetime detector system which design has been shown in the update from February 2022.

Update 2023-07-13:

The introduction of the Morse code 1838 was followed by an international agreement on short letter groups and numbers to transfer more complex concepts by just two or three characters and/or numbers.

One famous shortcut is "SOS" to signal that help is urgently needed or "CQ" for inviting anybody to a conversation and "QRT" to inform the communication partner about finishing a conversation or activity and "73" to send best greetings in the end of a conversation.

Following the idea of those shortcuts from times of Morse telegrafy it was proposed to develop as well a commonly accepted ensemble of shortcuts for the purpose of the Asteroids project which will have a unique meaning each and which will be suited to transfer most often used content concepts as short tokens.

The proposal is to use Chinese language for developing a set of those tokens, e.g.

Please feel free to comment on the proposal if you would like to.

Update 2023-06-12:

The following report about generating thrust by closed systems electric devices may open a basic understanding how to get to physical models that would support anti-gravity systems:

Advances in thrust generated by closed systems electric devices.pdf

Update 2023-03-31:

Registered working hours: 0 h (There haven't been registered any working hours against the Asteroids project by now.)

Update 2022-12-01:

There was an announcement on December 1st in a local newspaper "Ostseezeitung" that the regional airport Rostock-Laage could develop into a Central Europe spaceport:

Update 2022-11-02:

Iran invites Texas to become a member of the Asteroids project group. They will step back to a candidate state in favour of Houston becoming a new location for operating space flights inside our solar system. Thanks to Iran and please welcome Texas in the Asteroids project group.

Update 2022-10-30:

Texas applied for becoming a member of the Asteroids project group. Thank you for your application, GW!

Actually, it would have been great to respond positiv immediately but the intended number of participating parties in the project has been reached already which is 21. That number 21 relates to the 21st degree of consciousness which can be experienced in the project.

Would there be any participant wanting to step back to a candidate state to allow Texas to join the group?

Update 2022-10-23:

Hungary and Poland applied for becoming a member of the Asteroids project group. Please welcome both countries for joining the enterprise.

China applied for Taiwan becoming again a member of the Asteroids project group as a future region of China which will take care for preserving resources on asteroids. Please welcome back Taiwan.

Update 2022-09-21:

Russia was removed from the Asteroids project group because of continuing war against Ukraine after several calls for stopping that war and to step into negotiations for returning to peace in Europe.

Update 2022-09-12:

The former airport region near Peenemünde on the Isle of Usedom has been proposed as a new location for the Asteroids project if Germany would be accepted in the Asteroids project again in future.

Update 2022-08-06:

Taiwan was removed from the Asteroids project group because of being claimed by China.

Germany was removed from the Asteroids project group because of supporting war continuation in the Ukraine instead of negotiations.

Update 2022-04-24:

An astro camera SV305M Pro has been tested on the Omegon Pro Astrograph 254/1016 telescope. A comparison with the Stellarium program suggests that stars can be detected upto the mag 17 to mag 18 range.

Update 2022-03-31:

Registered working hours: 0 h (There haven't been registered any working hours against the Asteroids project by now.)

Update 2022-03-25:

A proposal regarding the fix monthly payment of 1820€ (see update from 2022-02-18) suggests that it should also take other income sources of a participant into account. The fix payment would be reduced by those income respectively it would not be paid if other income exceeds the nominal fix payment.

The nominal variable payment from 1820€ to 4950€ would not be affected by this proposal.

Please feel free to comment on that proposal by email to asteroids@wegalink.eu or by a Signal communication. Thank you.

Update 2022-03-13:

Italy joined the Asteroids project group. Please welcome Italy for a spacetime advanture in the Asteroids project group.

Update 2022-03-11:

Ukraine was removed from the Asteroids project group because of being a war region.

Update 2022-03-08:

Chile and Syria also applied for taking part in the Asteroids project. Please welcome both countries in the Asteroids project group.

A curious investor asked about ownership of the enterprise which is a very important question.

The specific requirement of the Asteroids project is a continuous financial demand. Basically, shares could be evaluated as well based on the consumer price index same as payments to participants. This would mean for example:

• A first investor would own 100% of the enterprise.
• A second investor's investment would be evaluated based on the consumer price index at time when the investment took place, compared to the consumer price index when the first investor joined the project.
• Any subsequent investor's investment would be evaluated equivalent as described for the second investor, except that the investments of all previous investors will be taken into account.
• A new investor may decide to create an independent new instance of the Asteroids project if there are discrepancies with existing investors that can not be overcome in negotiations, however, this would also split limited resources on Earth which should be avoided from my point of view.

These are just first considerations which still have to be discussed in detail.

Thanks for asking.

See you soon!

Update 2022-03-01:

Thanks for asking how starting/finishing work in the Asteroids project is handled.

The Asteroids project will start in a "virtual mode" and the following procedures are proposed:

• Starting today, March 1st, 2022, it is possible to register working hours against the Asteroids project. Registered working hours, however, will not be paid before not an investor has joined the project. Thus one could say that the Asteroids project starts in a "virtual financial mode", however, with real work being done.
• Working hours can be registered by sending a notification to asteroids@wegalink.eu (date, hours, service/activity, result). Result means how the outcome of a service/activity is shared with the project community. Only full working hours can be registered. Possible parts of an hour should be silently taken into account on the next project working day.
• A service/activity should be freely derived from the Asteroids project's general objective available at wegalink.eu/asteroids based on individual background, knowledge, equipment, intentions and inspirations.
• A service could be for example taking astro photos with a precise timestamp (exposure start/duration), preferably those images that show stars also with a brightness mag 15 and weaker.
• A service could be for example supporting multilingual communication in the project.
• A service could be for example developing software for the Asteroids project.
• A service could be for example working on organizing the Asteroids project.
• Once an investor has joined the project, registered hours will be paid according to the rules which have been outlined on the website wegalink.eu/asteroids:
• The monthly payment will be based on a fix and a variable component that both relate a nominal payment to the consumer price index in a country, compared to the consumer price index in Germany 2020
• In first three months, only the variable payment applies based on registered hours, paid short after the end of a month. Afterwards, also a fix payment is granted in the beginning of each subsequent month.
• The fix payment will continue for another three months when no working hours are registered against the project any longer.

Please send your comments and questions about proposed procedures to asteroids@wegalink.eu.

See you soon!

Update 2022-02-27:

Thailand and New Zealand have become interested as well in the Asteroids project. Please welcome both countries in the Asteroids project group.

Feedback to the Asteroids project has arrived from open-minded scientists:

Dmitri Kirko, physicist, Moscow, his viewpoint, 2022-02-26:
To realize the problem of protecting the Earth from asteroids it is advisable to look for new physical effects and create fundamentally new inventions, followed by their theoretical explanation, and technical realization.

Marcus Reid, researcher, Munich, 2022-02-21:
A propulsion system with a permanent 1 g accelleration could bring a spaceship in a few days through the solar system. The physics would be based on generating a force against the local quantum frame by making the permanent, intrinsic energy exchange ASYMMETRIC between particles like protons, neutrons, electrons and the quantum vacuum.

Peter Wright, engineer, Bangkok, 2022-02-20:
Ion propulsion could be used already now for space probes that could go to asteroids orbits between Mars and Jupiter. They could use material analysis methods e.g. based on X-ray backscatter signals for discovering the surface material composition during an asteroid fly-by. Furthermore, a camera system could detect smaller asteroids from an observation position inside the asteroids belt which solar light reflections are too weak and which therefore are not visible from Earth.

Please feel free to send your feedback to asteroids@wegalink.eu.

Update 2022-02-18:

Thanks for asking about how participants would be rewarded for their work in the Asteroids project. Please find some thoughts below how it could be implemented:

• a nominal monthly payment could be derived from proton resonances ~1820cm and ~4950cm where cm turns into €
• a nominal amount of working hours per week could be derived from electron resonance ~30.5m where m turns into hours
• in general, proton as well as electron resonances are known for supporting a long-term stability of a system
• a nominal monthly payment of 4950€ would apply if in average the nominal 30.5 hours per week are registered against the project and are confirmed by co-workers
• average working hours between 0 and 30.5h per week provide to a proportional monthly payment from 1820€ to 4950€
• a monthly payment of 1820€ would apply at most twice three times a year if no working hours have been registered during a month
• working hours above 30.5h per week (overtime) would be cumulated and be taken into account for payments to employees/freelancers in subsequent months
• a maximal number of paid months without registered working hours and without pending overtime hours during a scheduled 21 years runtime of the first project phase could be derived from electron resonance 30.5m where m turns into months
• the same number of months would be the maximum overtime that could ever be collected and be rewared for in the end of a successful first project phase
• the nominal monthly payment would be related to the "consumer price index" 2020 in Germany and would be multiplied by a factor dependent on the "consumer price index" in a participant's country and dependent on the "consumer price index" of respective last year
• above rules follow the concept of "Service-To-Others" (STO) with freedom and flexibility in opposite to the paradigm of "Service-To-Self" (STS) which is implemented in most privately owned companies and corporations nowadays to which nevertheless a lot of business relations would be established
• to sum up, a working hour of every participant in any country on any continent would be rewarded in the same way according to the rules in the project

All hints and suggestions are welcome

Update 2022-02-17:

Actually, China and the US have different strategic plans regarding the asteroids, in particular the exploitation of their resources. This is what makes them not compatible with the Asteroids project. The intention of the Asteroids project is a bookkeeping of all asteroids including taking 3D images from all of them in an about 42 years timeframe. Afterwards, the chances for rebuilding the planet between Mars and Jupiter will be estimated based on technologies that still have to be developed in future. Thanks for the question.

Update 2022-02-16:

Russia have applied for joining again the group of interested parties in the Asteroids project and two locations have been proposed for spaceport sites, Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg. Please welcome back Russia in the project group and find proposed locations added to the survey on the Asteroids project website https://wegalink.eu/asteroids.

A first arrival/launch site for space transporters serving the Asteroids project is being prepared near Greifswald/Germany (about 3h travel time by car/train from airport BER). The site features a measurement system for detecting elastic spacetime deformations. That system intends to estimate a live energetic 3D image of our Sun for climate change research purposes as described on https://wegalink.eu/mvp. At the same time, the system will register extrem deformations of our elastic spacetime during arrival/launch of space transporters due to their interactions with the quantum level.

Please find a design image of that site below. It contains also hints to Portuguese as candidate language for operating space flights to asteroids as well as a hint to Korean as candidate language for scientific work in the Asteroids project.

Update 2022-01-23:

Lisboa/Portugal has been added to Information Centers and Greifswald/Germany to the Asteroids project. Thanks for the hint. Please find an updated world map further up.

Update 2022-01-20:

An Asteroids Meetup Group has been opened for online collaboration on the development of an automated asteroids monitoring system. A first local meeting has been scheduled for February, 2nd in Greifswald/Germany. Additionally, the discussion room can be used for proposing online meetings that may run for example as Signal Video Conferences.

https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/asteroids-meetup-group/
(has been closed in September 2022 because of missing interest)

If you own a telescope or if you have access to an instrument then you may want to contribute to asteroids monitoring with own observations. Please find below a recommendation from April 2021 for recommended minimal requirements of a digital telescope system that can be used successfully for detecting asteroids.

Recommendation on a minimal telescope system for monitoring asteroids (see further down: Update 2021-04-05)

Update 2021-12-31:

Dear interested parties in the Asteroids project!

Lithuania and Germany have applied for joining the Asteroids group. Please welcome both countries in the Asteroids project.

The previously proposed astronomical equipment has been tested with a Sony Alpha 6000 camera.

Please find below an image that shows stars in the Pleiades that point to a minimal magnitude of mag 15.55 which can be observed with used equipment. This is just a first shot which can certainly be improved when using a special astronomy camera that can be cooled down below ambient temperature to further reduce the noise in the image.

Please feel free to comment on this information and to make suggestions how results can be improved.

Thanks and kind regards

Update 2021-09-05:

Well, there seems to be a general preference for Portuguese. So please let's assume that Portuguese is the new proposal for the operation language of the Asteroids project.

In turn, Portugal may participate in generating a Portuguese-Sanskrit interface that is needed as an intermediate language to all other languages on Earth.

Please welcome Portugal in the group of interested parties in the Asteroids project!

No, the Sandhi rules should not be part of the intermediate Sanskrit language container. They come into play however in spoken Sanskrit as it is used e.g. in Karnataka in India.

Thanks for that question.

Update 2021-09-04:

The basic idea for financing the Asteroids project is capital acquisition from private investors and from stock markets.

Furthermore, there was a remark about proposed operation language Spanish. Althought Christopher Columbus' mission was financed by the spanish kingdom, Portuguese is considered his native language. So please feel free to initiate a discussion in your countries about what language would be appropriate for the operation of future space missions.

Should there be any information that you would like be forwarded to the Asteroids project you are invited to send it to asteroids@wegalink.eu.

Update 2021-04-24:

Thanks for proposing a new operating language for the Asteroids project.

The new proposal for the operating language is Spanish in Christopher Columbus' honor of "discovering" the Americas 1492 which confirms that Spanish worked well for discovering new worlds as it is also intended in the Asteroids project.

This completes the following setup of involved languages:

Scientific Language

Korean has been proposed as the scientific language in the project. If this will be confirmed, then all scientific documents should be written in Korean and a sound knowledge of that language would be essential for scientists in the project.

Operating language

Spanish is now the proposal for the operating language for managing all organisation tasks including the flights to Asteroids.

Mediator language

A mediator language serves as an intermediate language for an automated high-quality, real-time translation between all language pairs and therefore it should have all features of other languages. Sanskrit has been proposed as the mediator language and it is currently evaluated whether it could fulfill expectations.

Fallback language

Should any language pair fail in certain circumstances then English has been proposed as a fallback language.

Update 2021-04-05:

First activities focus on refining the ephemerides of asteroids (also called minor planets). The following recommendations may help to find the right equipment for local groups and private persons who want to contribute to that task.

MOUNT

Most important is a stable mount that let a telescope smoothly automatically follow the star movement on sky. The Skywatcher Mount EQ6-R Pro SynScan GoTo is capable of moving telescopes of upto 20 kg:

TELESCOPE

The observation of asteroids requires a telescope with high aperture and high focal ratio in order to collect as much as possible light from faintest objects in the sky. The Omegon Teleskop Pro Astrograph 254/1016 OTA offers an aperture of 254 mm and a focal ratio of f/4. Going below those parameters is not recommended for observing asteroids. Otherwise, better parameters would be desirable but will increase costs considerably.

EYEPIECE

A star alignment of the telescope before astronomical observations demands for an ocular with a not too small focal length in order to have alignment stars inside the telescope's field of view. Using an EXPLORE SCIENTIFIC 70° Okular 30mm (2") eyepiece results in about a 2° field of view which allows for aligning the telescope's pointing position conveniently in most situations.

ASTRO CAMERA

The camera will be mounted on the telescope in order to take digital images. A mono camera with large pixels and a high quantum efficiency with low noise is desirable. To reduce noise, astro cameras can usually be cooled down to about 40 degree below ambient temperature like the ALccd-QHY Camera 174 cool Mono:

TELESCOPE and MOUNT combined system

The total cost of a complete telescope system with a digital camera can be reduced to about 3700 € (January 2022) when going for a combined system Omegon Teleskop Pro Astrograph 254/1016 EQ6-R Pro.

Above components should serve as a guideline for a suitable equipment that is capable of detecting a major part of asteroids and to determine their positions in order to estimate their ephemerides.

The information will hopefully be helpful to find a starting point for selecting the right equipment for the asteroids survey.