>step 1: 7 years
send preliminary colonisation party to mercury to establish a base of operations
>step 2: 1 year
launch a steam of solar sails from 0.02 au to act as kinetic impactors to give hyperion enough velocity to be flung out of saturns orbit past jupiter and into the inner solar system to crash into mercury 15 years after ejection.
>step 3: 15 years
mine 75km^2 -750km^ (based on local Ti abundance) of titanium dioxide which range from 1% -5% to produce doped titanium dioxide photo-catalyst, this is 0.001-0.0001% of the total surface area of mercury and only ten times larger than the current 4-40 times larger than current large open pit mines. This will allow the entire surface of mercury to be covered in 0.1 mm of photo-catalyst.
>step 5 : 6 months
brace for impact
>step 6 : 5 years
cover the surface of mercury with photo-catalyst by launching cache's of it with a railgun launch system
>step 7: 68 years
wait. after 68 years the photocatalyst will have split the vast majority of water from hyperion into hydrogen and oxygen, with the hydrogen being lost immediately to space and the oxygen staying for another few thousand years. pressure will be 0.2-0.3 bars of 02 which is comfortable in both pressure and partial pressure of o2 (breathable)
>step 8: infinity
colonize the top and bottom 5-10% of mercury which has a temperature less than 50 celcius but greater than 0 Celsius, this habitable percentage can be expanded over the decades via the usage of solar shades as need be for expansion.
>step 9
profit?
send preliminary colonisation party to mercury to establish a base of operations
>step 2: 1 year
launch a steam of solar sails from 0.02 au to act as kinetic impactors to give hyperion enough velocity to be flung out of saturns orbit past jupiter and into the inner solar system to crash into mercury 15 years after ejection.
>step 3: 15 years
mine 75km^2 -750km^ (based on local Ti abundance) of titanium dioxide which range from 1% -5% to produce doped titanium dioxide photo-catalyst, this is 0.001-0.0001% of the total surface area of mercury and only ten times larger than the current 4-40 times larger than current large open pit mines. This will allow the entire surface of mercury to be covered in 0.1 mm of photo-catalyst.
>step 5 : 6 months
brace for impact
>step 6 : 5 years
cover the surface of mercury with photo-catalyst by launching cache's of it with a railgun launch system
>step 7: 68 years
wait. after 68 years the photocatalyst will have split the vast majority of water from hyperion into hydrogen and oxygen, with the hydrogen being lost immediately to space and the oxygen staying for another few thousand years. pressure will be 0.2-0.3 bars of 02 which is comfortable in both pressure and partial pressure of o2 (breathable)
>step 8: infinity
colonize the top and bottom 5-10% of mercury which has a temperature less than 50 celcius but greater than 0 Celsius, this habitable percentage can be expanded over the decades via the usage of solar shades as need be for expansion.
>step 9
profit?
