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*[[Ring launch]] or [[line launch]]

...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

...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

...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

...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_ts = 2 * Apt_ts / r_s = 1.685734 E3 m/sec = launch velocity

...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

==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

...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

...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.

...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

...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

...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.

...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.

...improving the fundamental [[List of Propulsion Systems|all electric cargo launch]] facilities will not be neglected.

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...ates, on the 7th of September in 2000, NASA stated that costs of recurring launch ranging from $100 to $200 per kilogram would enable production of an econom ...of industrial infrastructure on the moon and a lack of a market for using launch facilities on the moon.

;Landing and Launch Zone: You land and launch spacecraft from this zone. It needs to be flat and smooth. You cannot land ...dip above and below the horizon, or where local terrain could obstruct the line of sight. In these areas there may be peaks with good Earth views close t