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It does come at the cost of some launchpad expansions and increased fuel requirements, but that all comes out of the facility’s budget.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3291/
I still say we should mount rockets into a rollercoaster rail🎢 that way stage one can be spent on the ground doing a horizontal launch and then the rail would have to change the angle to be more horizontal
This was actually tested in 2001 and found to be effective method to launch a crew into space
https://youtu.be/mt_kSlBBEXs?t=139
Sweet now I have a working example to show. Also I remember seeing jimmy neutron movie in theaters
i remember the 2000s being a lot less colorful. and pointier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop
Sure, it’s just 2000 kilometers long. We’ll just take over the northern half of Brazil to build it
You need a bit less than 1/3 of it…
But it’s supposed to be build in an ocean. Forests do not make for good logistics.
(It’s also supposed to use a series of hypersonic iron pellets running inside a tube, that will explode and endanger a hundreds of km radius if something like even an air leak appears there… So yeah, the size is the least of the issues here.)