Used a Coil Gun to launch satellites into Space and rockets to slow the accent and correct Trajectory. Solar panels could be used to store energy in a storage cell which would deliver one burst charge for liftoff. The cost of space goods delivery would be decreased significantly. Oil would loose a lot of value and human kind would advance, What do you think?
2007-04-09 08:18:37 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Aerodynamics could be used for the payload and inital burst design could be used to clear a path (kind of like how bike racers guide behind others with less energy)
2007-04-09 08:26:45 · update #1
I was thinking more on the lines of the Russian concept of a disposable or event a recoverable shell
2007-04-09 08:45:36 · update #2
The price of oil would be may be a residual and not a direct effect of cost effective space utilization
2007-04-09 08:48:33 · update #3
I doubt you'd have much affect on the price of oil... The problem with that kind of gun is the rapid acceleration needed for the payload - it would have to survive about 35 to 85 G's of force; which requires hardening (and adding addtional weight) to a satellite. And, such a system would be useless for manned flight (who wants an astronaut smeared to jellly?). Probably a better investment would be a Space elevator....
2007-04-09 08:42:38 · answer #1 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you can sell it to the knowledgeable scientists at NASA let me know. Sounds like the old perpetual motion, great in theory but impossible to accomplish, to me.
2007-04-09 15:29:35 · answer #2 · answered by mustanger 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No way. The initial velocity would have to be so high in the thick atmosphere that it would vaporize.
2007-04-09 15:23:37 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, that is too risky. There is a 99% chance the company will fail.
2007-04-09 15:28:08 · answer #4 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋