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You fly the rocket on the bottom of a plane, then fire it out. Assuming these cloud cities have landing strips, right? Managing ballast might be a challenge…
by dr_dshiv 1y ago
You fly the rocket on the bottom of a plane, then fire it out. Assuming these cloud cities have landing strips, right?
Managing ballast might be a challenge…
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> You fly the rocket on the bottom of a plane, then fire it out This requires engineering the rocket to withstand structural loads in two directions as well as a ~90-degree rotation under thrust. Not trivial. (It's been a major handicap for airlaunch on Earth.) Landing on and taking off from floating platforms is like the one part of Venusian colonisation we've actually solved.
- vidarh 1y agoOr you just drop it off the side.