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Low Cost access to space with the Starfire space cannon
- ColinWright 13y agoOrbital velocity at grazing altitude is about 8 km/s. Firing something at anything like that speed through our soup of an atmosphere is largely a non-starter, and the first obvious question/objection. And yet they don't seem to mention that at all.
- venomsnake 13y agoI could think of several way to fire something, but we are talking about lhc kind of structure. And at the end what will fly away will be close to plasma. But accelerating something in the ground within spiral pipe (or one really long straight one) is viable with charges (or electromagnets - much better idea).