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Relatedly, have you ever heard of skyhook? Not the CIA one but the orbital infrastructure concept -- lets you literally just take a supersonic capable plane wit
by monkeyfun 2y ago
Relatedly, have you ever heard of skyhook? Not the CIA one but the orbital infrastructure concept -- lets you literally just take a supersonic capable plane with no rocket engines whatsoever into space.
Always love that concept with how it's actually engineer-able with current materials and sounds like it shouldn't work until you look closely.
- metadat 2y agoThis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_(structure) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_(structure) Interesting idea, but if I'm understanding correctly, how do you stop the thing you hooked from swinging around and back down? Would you need to reel in 50 miles or whatever of cable?
- ben_w 2y agoYou can just let go of it when it's high enough, it picks up (ground) speed on the way up.