The most numerous and multi-functional class of spacecraft likely in the Asgard phase, the Inter-Orbital Transport also represents the essential example of the Beamship Concept of spacecraft design. Designed solely for operation in the space environment, these vessels may be designed to dock with specific orbital facilities or –at their largest sizes- serviced by other smaller vehicles or long-reach telerobotic arms. These vessels would be teleoperated, fully automated, or manned –and often able to function alternately in all those modes. They would commonly be employed in two roles; inter-orbital ‘shuttles’ which move goods and people between LEO and GEO and different orbital locations around Earth and other bodies and inter-orbital ‘transports’ that carry goods and people between the maj