Spaceport on Phobos?
Which novel depicted Mars' moon Phobos as an elaborately constructed spaceport?
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Which novel depicted Mars' moon Phobos as an elaborately constructed spaceport?
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Yes, but where are you going to buy your coffee if you have a long flight to the outer planets?
– Bob516
Dec 12 '18 at 3:17
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Are you looking for one specific work? What other details can you recall?
– FuzzyBoots
Dec 13 '18 at 2:00
@FuzzyBoots gowenfawr got me the answer, thanks.
– Bob516
Dec 13 '18 at 2:28
Is this really a story-identification question? You were looking for a specific book that you'd read before, and Morning Star is the one you remembered? I ask because it didn't sound like it in the first version of your question: "Has any story, movie, TV show depicted a spaceport . . ."
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Which novel depicted Mars' moon Phobos as an elaborately constructed spaceport?
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Which novel depicted Mars' moon Phobos as an elaborately constructed spaceport?
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Yes, but where are you going to buy your coffee if you have a long flight to the outer planets?
– Bob516
Dec 12 '18 at 3:17
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Are you looking for one specific work? What other details can you recall?
– FuzzyBoots
Dec 13 '18 at 2:00
@FuzzyBoots gowenfawr got me the answer, thanks.
– Bob516
Dec 13 '18 at 2:28
Is this really a story-identification question? You were looking for a specific book that you'd read before, and Morning Star is the one you remembered? I ask because it didn't sound like it in the first version of your question: "Has any story, movie, TV show depicted a spaceport . . ."
– user14111
Dec 13 '18 at 11:09
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Yes, but where are you going to buy your coffee if you have a long flight to the outer planets?
– Bob516
Dec 12 '18 at 3:17
1
Are you looking for one specific work? What other details can you recall?
– FuzzyBoots
Dec 13 '18 at 2:00
@FuzzyBoots gowenfawr got me the answer, thanks.
– Bob516
Dec 13 '18 at 2:28
Is this really a story-identification question? You were looking for a specific book that you'd read before, and Morning Star is the one you remembered? I ask because it didn't sound like it in the first version of your question: "Has any story, movie, TV show depicted a spaceport . . ."
– user14111
Dec 13 '18 at 11:09
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Yes, but where are you going to buy your coffee if you have a long flight to the outer planets?
– Bob516
Dec 12 '18 at 3:17
Yes, but where are you going to buy your coffee if you have a long flight to the outer planets?
– Bob516
Dec 12 '18 at 3:17
1
1
Are you looking for one specific work? What other details can you recall?
– FuzzyBoots
Dec 13 '18 at 2:00
Are you looking for one specific work? What other details can you recall?
– FuzzyBoots
Dec 13 '18 at 2:00
@FuzzyBoots gowenfawr got me the answer, thanks.
– Bob516
Dec 13 '18 at 2:28
@FuzzyBoots gowenfawr got me the answer, thanks.
– Bob516
Dec 13 '18 at 2:28
Is this really a story-identification question? You were looking for a specific book that you'd read before, and Morning Star is the one you remembered? I ask because it didn't sound like it in the first version of your question: "Has any story, movie, TV show depicted a spaceport . . ."
– user14111
Dec 13 '18 at 11:09
Is this really a story-identification question? You were looking for a specific book that you'd read before, and Morning Star is the one you remembered? I ask because it didn't sound like it in the first version of your question: "Has any story, movie, TV show depicted a spaceport . . ."
– user14111
Dec 13 '18 at 11:09
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In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:
The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.
Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:
In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].
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Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.
Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".
In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.
In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.
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One of the earliest, and extremely well-written, attempts at hard-SF about Mars is Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars (1951) which features a spaceport on Deimos.
The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...
Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
– Bob516
Dec 12 '18 at 4:19
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Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" has the Stone family landing at a spaceport on Phobos and then taking a ferry down to Mars.
All ships land on Phobos, which would make it a port.
The book is from 1952, though, so the Clarke story mentioned by Mark Olson in another answer beats it by a year.
Why is this downvoted? It appears to answer the question
– Suppen
Dec 12 '18 at 8:57
@Suppen - Because experienced users (who frankly should know better) answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
– Valorum
Dec 12 '18 at 11:24
@Valorum. As a new member I did not know this was an obvious off-topic question.
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:23
@Bob516 - To be frank you should have been told immediately. This issue has come about because experienced users (wrongly) answered it instead of (rightly) pointing you toward the policy
– Valorum
Dec 14 '18 at 16:26
@Valorum where would I find the policies spelled out?
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:29
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Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy uses Phobos as a base.
Phobos information on Kim Stanley Robinsons Info Site
Phobos was one of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being
Deimos. Its name means "fear" in Greek.
The first humans to arrive on it were a team of the First Hundred led
by Arkady Bogdanov upon the arrival of the Ares in Mars space. During
their initial settlement, they domed Stickney crater. They also
secretly placed a system of remote controlled guidance jets that could
drive Phobos out of its orbit and burn it in the atmosphere. At that
time it was used as a communications satellite.
It was later used as a weapons platform by UNOMA and transnational
forces. Arkady gave the remote control to the jets to Nadia
Cherneshevsky, who used them and destroyed Phobos during the First
Martian Revolution in 2061.
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In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:
The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.
Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:
In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].
add a comment |
In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:
The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.
Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:
In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].
add a comment |
In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:
The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.
Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:
In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].
In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:
The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.
Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:
In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].
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Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.
Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".
In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.
In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.
add a comment |
Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.
Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".
In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.
In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.
add a comment |
Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.
Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".
In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.
In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.
Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.
Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".
In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.
In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.
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One of the earliest, and extremely well-written, attempts at hard-SF about Mars is Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars (1951) which features a spaceport on Deimos.
The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...
Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
– Bob516
Dec 12 '18 at 4:19
add a comment |
One of the earliest, and extremely well-written, attempts at hard-SF about Mars is Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars (1951) which features a spaceport on Deimos.
The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...
Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
– Bob516
Dec 12 '18 at 4:19
add a comment |
One of the earliest, and extremely well-written, attempts at hard-SF about Mars is Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars (1951) which features a spaceport on Deimos.
The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...
One of the earliest, and extremely well-written, attempts at hard-SF about Mars is Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars (1951) which features a spaceport on Deimos.
The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...
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Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
– Bob516
Dec 12 '18 at 4:19
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Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
– Bob516
Dec 12 '18 at 4:19
Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
– Bob516
Dec 12 '18 at 4:19
Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
– Bob516
Dec 12 '18 at 4:19
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Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" has the Stone family landing at a spaceport on Phobos and then taking a ferry down to Mars.
All ships land on Phobos, which would make it a port.
The book is from 1952, though, so the Clarke story mentioned by Mark Olson in another answer beats it by a year.
Why is this downvoted? It appears to answer the question
– Suppen
Dec 12 '18 at 8:57
@Suppen - Because experienced users (who frankly should know better) answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
– Valorum
Dec 12 '18 at 11:24
@Valorum. As a new member I did not know this was an obvious off-topic question.
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:23
@Bob516 - To be frank you should have been told immediately. This issue has come about because experienced users (wrongly) answered it instead of (rightly) pointing you toward the policy
– Valorum
Dec 14 '18 at 16:26
@Valorum where would I find the policies spelled out?
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:29
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Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" has the Stone family landing at a spaceport on Phobos and then taking a ferry down to Mars.
All ships land on Phobos, which would make it a port.
The book is from 1952, though, so the Clarke story mentioned by Mark Olson in another answer beats it by a year.
Why is this downvoted? It appears to answer the question
– Suppen
Dec 12 '18 at 8:57
@Suppen - Because experienced users (who frankly should know better) answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
– Valorum
Dec 12 '18 at 11:24
@Valorum. As a new member I did not know this was an obvious off-topic question.
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:23
@Bob516 - To be frank you should have been told immediately. This issue has come about because experienced users (wrongly) answered it instead of (rightly) pointing you toward the policy
– Valorum
Dec 14 '18 at 16:26
@Valorum where would I find the policies spelled out?
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:29
|
show 4 more comments
Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" has the Stone family landing at a spaceport on Phobos and then taking a ferry down to Mars.
All ships land on Phobos, which would make it a port.
The book is from 1952, though, so the Clarke story mentioned by Mark Olson in another answer beats it by a year.
Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" has the Stone family landing at a spaceport on Phobos and then taking a ferry down to Mars.
All ships land on Phobos, which would make it a port.
The book is from 1952, though, so the Clarke story mentioned by Mark Olson in another answer beats it by a year.
edited Dec 13 '18 at 21:40
Valorum
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Why is this downvoted? It appears to answer the question
– Suppen
Dec 12 '18 at 8:57
@Suppen - Because experienced users (who frankly should know better) answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
– Valorum
Dec 12 '18 at 11:24
@Valorum. As a new member I did not know this was an obvious off-topic question.
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:23
@Bob516 - To be frank you should have been told immediately. This issue has come about because experienced users (wrongly) answered it instead of (rightly) pointing you toward the policy
– Valorum
Dec 14 '18 at 16:26
@Valorum where would I find the policies spelled out?
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:29
|
show 4 more comments
Why is this downvoted? It appears to answer the question
– Suppen
Dec 12 '18 at 8:57
@Suppen - Because experienced users (who frankly should know better) answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
– Valorum
Dec 12 '18 at 11:24
@Valorum. As a new member I did not know this was an obvious off-topic question.
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:23
@Bob516 - To be frank you should have been told immediately. This issue has come about because experienced users (wrongly) answered it instead of (rightly) pointing you toward the policy
– Valorum
Dec 14 '18 at 16:26
@Valorum where would I find the policies spelled out?
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:29
Why is this downvoted? It appears to answer the question
– Suppen
Dec 12 '18 at 8:57
Why is this downvoted? It appears to answer the question
– Suppen
Dec 12 '18 at 8:57
@Suppen - Because experienced users (who frankly should know better) answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
– Valorum
Dec 12 '18 at 11:24
@Suppen - Because experienced users (who frankly should know better) answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
– Valorum
Dec 12 '18 at 11:24
@Valorum. As a new member I did not know this was an obvious off-topic question.
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:23
@Valorum. As a new member I did not know this was an obvious off-topic question.
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:23
@Bob516 - To be frank you should have been told immediately. This issue has come about because experienced users (wrongly) answered it instead of (rightly) pointing you toward the policy
– Valorum
Dec 14 '18 at 16:26
@Bob516 - To be frank you should have been told immediately. This issue has come about because experienced users (wrongly) answered it instead of (rightly) pointing you toward the policy
– Valorum
Dec 14 '18 at 16:26
@Valorum where would I find the policies spelled out?
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:29
@Valorum where would I find the policies spelled out?
– Bob516
Dec 14 '18 at 16:29
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Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy uses Phobos as a base.
Phobos information on Kim Stanley Robinsons Info Site
Phobos was one of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being
Deimos. Its name means "fear" in Greek.
The first humans to arrive on it were a team of the First Hundred led
by Arkady Bogdanov upon the arrival of the Ares in Mars space. During
their initial settlement, they domed Stickney crater. They also
secretly placed a system of remote controlled guidance jets that could
drive Phobos out of its orbit and burn it in the atmosphere. At that
time it was used as a communications satellite.
It was later used as a weapons platform by UNOMA and transnational
forces. Arkady gave the remote control to the jets to Nadia
Cherneshevsky, who used them and destroyed Phobos during the First
Martian Revolution in 2061.
add a comment |
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy uses Phobos as a base.
Phobos information on Kim Stanley Robinsons Info Site
Phobos was one of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being
Deimos. Its name means "fear" in Greek.
The first humans to arrive on it were a team of the First Hundred led
by Arkady Bogdanov upon the arrival of the Ares in Mars space. During
their initial settlement, they domed Stickney crater. They also
secretly placed a system of remote controlled guidance jets that could
drive Phobos out of its orbit and burn it in the atmosphere. At that
time it was used as a communications satellite.
It was later used as a weapons platform by UNOMA and transnational
forces. Arkady gave the remote control to the jets to Nadia
Cherneshevsky, who used them and destroyed Phobos during the First
Martian Revolution in 2061.
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Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy uses Phobos as a base.
Phobos information on Kim Stanley Robinsons Info Site
Phobos was one of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being
Deimos. Its name means "fear" in Greek.
The first humans to arrive on it were a team of the First Hundred led
by Arkady Bogdanov upon the arrival of the Ares in Mars space. During
their initial settlement, they domed Stickney crater. They also
secretly placed a system of remote controlled guidance jets that could
drive Phobos out of its orbit and burn it in the atmosphere. At that
time it was used as a communications satellite.
It was later used as a weapons platform by UNOMA and transnational
forces. Arkady gave the remote control to the jets to Nadia
Cherneshevsky, who used them and destroyed Phobos during the First
Martian Revolution in 2061.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy uses Phobos as a base.
Phobos information on Kim Stanley Robinsons Info Site
Phobos was one of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being
Deimos. Its name means "fear" in Greek.
The first humans to arrive on it were a team of the First Hundred led
by Arkady Bogdanov upon the arrival of the Ares in Mars space. During
their initial settlement, they domed Stickney crater. They also
secretly placed a system of remote controlled guidance jets that could
drive Phobos out of its orbit and burn it in the atmosphere. At that
time it was used as a communications satellite.
It was later used as a weapons platform by UNOMA and transnational
forces. Arkady gave the remote control to the jets to Nadia
Cherneshevsky, who used them and destroyed Phobos during the First
Martian Revolution in 2061.
answered Dec 13 '18 at 8:38
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Yes, but where are you going to buy your coffee if you have a long flight to the outer planets?
– Bob516
Dec 12 '18 at 3:17
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Are you looking for one specific work? What other details can you recall?
– FuzzyBoots
Dec 13 '18 at 2:00
@FuzzyBoots gowenfawr got me the answer, thanks.
– Bob516
Dec 13 '18 at 2:28
Is this really a story-identification question? You were looking for a specific book that you'd read before, and Morning Star is the one you remembered? I ask because it didn't sound like it in the first version of your question: "Has any story, movie, TV show depicted a spaceport . . ."
– user14111
Dec 13 '18 at 11:09