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You can pack materials so that a failed launch will not create leaks. The real problems for the Orion are political and frying of satellite electronics, iirc.

• rdl 14y ago
  Mostly political. You could presumably do the detonations with the moon in between for a while, and it's not like space outside the Van Allen belts is particularly low energy, either, so GEO satellites are shielded.
  • chii 14y ago
    i hate it when problems are "political" - or more correctly, that the general public's ignorance and fear retarding progress.
    • rdl 14y ago
      If I had ~10k nuclear weapons, I'd no longer have political problems.
      • eyeface 14y ago
        I think you would suddenly have a great many political problems.