What is the minimum level of technology to enable interlunar civilization?

Definition:

Interlunar
adjective
Of or traveling between moons.

I'm (as far as I can tell) inventing the term interlunar to describe travel between moons in a single planetary system.

Travel between

• Stars = Interstellar travel
• Planets = Interplanetary travel
• Moons = Interlunar travel (within the same planetary system)
• Asteroids = Interasteroidal travel (within the same asteroidal group, e.g. Trojans)

Normally I think the word "Lunar" implies Earth's Moon (Luna) but I think we can control this through capitalization (capital Luna = Earth's moon, small luna = any moon).

Assumptions:

1. Ignore life support requirements for the moment.
2. Assume a technological civilization develops on one of the moons of Saturn.

Question:

What is the minimum level of rocketry technology (perhaps type of rocket capable of performing the task?) required to support a civilization that spans the breadth of Saturnian moon system?

If you can, try to equate that to a year of human technological development (e.g. liquid fueled rockets developed by Robert Goddard circa 1926).

posted over 8 years ago

Jim2B‭

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