You're going to have deltaV problems with that approach. It's kind of like asking why can't we use a 737 to fly some rovers on the Moon. Check out the rocket e

You're going to have deltaV problems with that approach. It's kind of like asking why can't we use a 737 to fly some rovers on the Moon. Check out the rocket equation and see what kind of mass fraction you'll need to get hundreds of km/s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation