Hi,this is the translation of a Laureti's article about an alernative launch system, in the eventuality that PNN law of inertia wouldn't allow a direct take off from Earth.Please enjoy the reading Introduction:What I'm going to say is obviously in general terms, as I haven't got any engineering skills to execute and configure this next project in detail. The project in my opinion has feasible costs, although considerable.
I apologize for not being able to calculate the costs ...But if I think today we are worse than about 50 years ago at lunar outpostsAnd that this type of Saharan driver mass could allow 100% of the load to go into Earth orbit .... an account someone could do itRegardsPs: original url: http://www.asps.it/cittadellenuvole.htm
Introduction:What I'm going to say is obviously in general terms, as I haven't got any engineering skills to execute and configure this next project in detail.
If the Asps massdriver airship worked at full capacitythe electric energy to go into orbit would be given by the solar panels of the sahara desert and you could make at least 100 launches of 100 tons per day and then bring thousands of tons into orbit at a cost lower than $ 1 / kg. Only enormous quantities of materials brought to the Moon (and to Mars) would allow colonization in my opinion
When I say less than 1 $ / kg I refer only to the "steady" cost of a launch that in practice only consumes electricity. Now there will be maintenance to keep the mass driver always operational in thousands of continuous launches, but I see no other costs compared to the noteworthy goal of bringing almost 100% of the vehicle into orbit without losing more than 90% of what the missiles do with great risk.And then allow me, the goal that justifies the enormous costs of the mass driver is not to plant a flag on Mars and then flee, but to remain, to establish continuous commercial connections with the Earth and to colonize.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2141418-elon-musk-seems-to-have-ditched-red-dragon-lander-plan-for-mars/
Musk said SpaceX is planning a new, smaller and less expensive spacecraft to replace the Red Dragon, which may be unveiled as soon as September.
And all this could theoretically be done and not violating any physical principle unlike what it says Stan-1967, the problem is mainly engineering.
2) Even this mass launcher violates physical principles?https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/startram-maglev-creator-wants-fire-satellites-into-space-through-vertical-hyperloop-tube-1608038
You ask me a set of questions that must be dealt with gradually and my competence is not engineering, however, I context that there is a violation of physical laws unless it is shown to me that an engineering difficulty becomes a physical law.