All space development efforts are hindered by the cost of placing payloads in orbit. Reducing launch costs allows more mass to be placed into orbit for a given budget. Most of the weight (mass) in any rocket is used to launch the fuel and not the payload. Electromagnetic (EM) railguns or mass drivers would avoid that problem. A major assumption made in the paper is that construction materials including solar panels do not have the same accelerations limits as humans.


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    Titel :

    Mass Drivers for Space Construction


    Beteiligte:
    Leonard, R. S. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Earth and Space 2014 ; 2014 ; St. Louis, Missouri


    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    15.06.2015




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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