.... Also, what vendors here belong on other, as yet uncreated lists, such as launch system vendors?
...g a study to determine the cost to man rate this rocket. SpaceX is also a launch system vendor.
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*[[Ring launch]] or [[line launch]]
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...ld the rockets, then maintain the outsized facilities for construction and launch of rockets that get used every other year. This would prevent the reasonab
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...needed. Roads, mines, rocket launch pads and landing fields, and electric launch to orbit devices would all take effort to hide from any hostile agent and b
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...Beyond forty miles two steel rails without calcium fill extend in the same line to a point 60 miles (96 km) down range.
...etween the refractory scales and the cooled metal wall. At the end of the line a robot truck would pick up the first stage and haul it back for maintenanc
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...s expensive per pound of payload. Eliminating an entire unneeded class of launch vehicle results in savings that should not be missed.--[[User:Farred|Farred
...omes too costly, and it would probably be better to do a conventional land launch. We ship cargo in bulk on huge container ships, not one-by-one on rowboats.
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...ine connecting the center of mass of the two bodies. The location on this line is the center of mass <math>m_2/(m_1+m_2)</math>. For a man-made satellite
V<sub>ts</sub> = 2 * Apt<sub>ts</sub> / r<sub>s</sub> = 1.685734 E3 m/sec = launch velocity
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...when I or anyone else gets around to it. My contribution would be in the line of concepts that are possible rather than techniques that have been intelli
...system from Earth's surface to Luna's can be intelligently designed. The launch to low Earth orbit, the inter-orbit transfer system from low Earth orbit to
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...2 MJ''' (0,55 kWh) plus the energy losses. Let's put these at 20%, for a launch requirement of '''2,4 MJ/kg''' (0,66 kWh/kg)
...r own. Any item launched at lower than escape velocity will return to the launch point following orbital mechanics and hit the surface. So they require eith
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==Wheel Launch to Orbit==
...apple would extend to a portion of the track to the rear of the wheel on a line from the rim that would turn an electrical generator as it extends. A rod
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...ough incremental steps along the path to profitable operation. Electronic launch of commodities for trade is essential to a profitable lunar base, but there
...oles for thermal insulation of water and cryogenic fluids. Second, robots line the bottom of the holes with fines for insulation. Third, robots put tanks
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...ware, it’s documentation, instructions and support for the vehicles on the launch Pad.
...aterials items. Things picked up with the launch of America’s first manned launch of Al Shephard onboard MR-3 on May 5, 1961.
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...A twelve foot diameter tube for this purpose would lie in a straight level line on the surface of the moon. An air-lock door at the end of the tube would
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...ining the exhaust after the rocket leaves the tube and a door closes. The line of the corrugations of the silicon steel would run circumferentially about
*One question was about the launching. The rocket would launch from an electric catapult giving it about 4% of mission delta V and providi
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...gineering Branch’s Engine Unit, I was assigned to the Rocket Engines, Cape Launch Coordinator, Explosives and other collateral duties.
...up. It was Jim Fowler and Dr. Albert Zeiler, of Dr. Hans F. Gruene’s Cape Launch Operations Office. Zeiler said, “We have lost the purge on Pad B for Sat
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...require large heavy thermal radiators which will add significantly to the launch costs.
...or Moon once the initial lunar manufacturing is established; only minimal launch requirements to build the system out.
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*Launch tracks
=[[Lunarpedia:Outline_draft/TRADE AND THE BOTTOM LINE|TRADE AND THE BOTTOM LINE]]=
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...s trill with every launch where real people are putting their lives on the line to do something really big. This is as good as it gets for many people.
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...of the market are limited from the inefficiencies of scale that hinder the launch market on Earth, such as the increasing cost of liquid oxygen and land area
**Mars also has large unused resources which could be pressed into service to launch cargo to orbit. Luna could benefit from receiving hydrogen, nitrogen, carb
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...ed in one of the editing lessons. If you know a better way to create a two line title, I would be most happy to see it used. The actual sections start with
One persistent problem is the technology time line. If we do not limit ourselves to technologies that will be available by 202
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