I know how to get an object into space?
An object like a camera if protected from a vaccum could be made out of a strong metal such as tungsten and could be made to withstand a vaccum.
If a hydrogen ballon was big enough, it could carry it upto about 60km up.
But then it would have to go fre-fall about 0.5km (which is falling slowly at this altitude) so that it gets chance to do the next manuvoure.
It would be wieghted on the bottom to free-fall bottom-side down, and then the jets of gas would propell it out of the Earth's atomosphere.
I think it also may be possible to get it down with a parashoot. But it would be a very very long glide.
The gas jets could be used to guide the object back down.
A transponder could transmit a signal to my computer which would produce an image of the Earth from Outter Space on my laptop.
Total cost = £500
It is important to add that this would be a continuous jet of gas or in pulses, not one massive punch.
Is this possible?
2007-06-14 16:40:26 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I'm just hypothesizing, but if you could easily get cameras into space for £500, i suppose that the technology would be a lot more widely available, or at least someone of the gazillion people who work in space and aeronautics would have had a similar idea
but hey, there are always new ideas to be tested, if you've got £500, why not try it out?
2007-06-14 16:50:21 · answer #1 · answered by Mike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where would the jets of gas come from? A rocket?
You might get into space like this if you have a rocket (way more than £500) that could send the "CamSat" up to about 100 km but unless you can get it moving at 8.8 km/s it wouldn´t remain there. It would begin to fall down again as soon as the rocket stops firing. An object needs to move at atleast 8.8 km/s to remain in orbit so there is a big difference between going to space and staying there.
Microgravity experiments were actually done this way in the early space era. Balloons would be sent up to great height and then the payload would detach. As it fell it experienced zero g for a long while.
2007-06-14 21:04:06 · answer #2 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would have to be attached to a powerful rocket. The jets of gas you describe would be insufficient to reach escape velocity. Look at how satellites are put into orbit, you would need something powerful, like a modified ICBM, to reach space.
Most objects in Low Earth Orbit, that's about 200km-2000km above the Earth's surface, are traveling 27,400 km/h. It costs a lot more than £500 for that.
2007-06-14 18:55:39 · answer #3 · answered by Gary 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
properly, if once you're taking the digital camera in to a shop like Walmart or everywhere you're taking it to get the photographs more suitable, you may ask which you get the photographs digitally on a CD. Thn you may positioned that CD in a working laptop or computing gadget and upload to myspace from there.
2016-12-08 09:39:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You already posted this and it won't work. Why the repost ?
2007-06-14 16:43:22 · answer #5 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋