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Even worse: the EMP from an Orion launch would fry a lot of satellites. It's not a practical design for use anywhere near... anything. You could launch one fro
by api 10y ago
Even worse: the EMP from an Orion launch would fry a lot of satellites. It's not a practical design for use anywhere near... anything.
You could launch one from the far side of the Moon, but if you have that kind of space presence there are better engine designs. Some have been posted elsewhere in this thread.
- mikeash 10y agoYes, Orion looked a lot more attractive back before civilization became reliant on huge quantities of sensitive electronics in near-Earth space.
- adrusi 10y agoStupid that satellite electronics don't have more radiation shielding. We can refrain from nuclear detonation in orbit all we want, but the sun could still EMP us at any moment. Maybe it's expensive to lift heavy shielding into orbit, but it's more expensive to deal with the consequences of satellite systems outages and repairing/replacing broken equipment.