RGClark
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Solid rocket motors that amateurs have been launching for years can be combined by staging and stacking to form a fully orbital rocket.
Such orbital rockets are within the capabilities of most universities to construct. The result will be a radical reduction in launch costs to orbit for small payloads such as cubesats.
But this also means small orbital launches will be commonplace; so the national security implications of this have to be considered.
Orbital rockets are now easy, page 2: solid-rockets for cube-sats.
https://exoscientist.blogspot.com/2017/08/orbital-rockets-are-now-easy-page-2.html
Feasibility comments welcome. For instance, I used a payload estimator that only does a statistical estimation, i.e., not a true trajectory simulation. I'd be appreciative of anyone doing an Orbital trajectory simulation to see what it says about capabilities of the rocket.
Bob Clark
Such orbital rockets are within the capabilities of most universities to construct. The result will be a radical reduction in launch costs to orbit for small payloads such as cubesats.
But this also means small orbital launches will be commonplace; so the national security implications of this have to be considered.
Orbital rockets are now easy, page 2: solid-rockets for cube-sats.
https://exoscientist.blogspot.com/2017/08/orbital-rockets-are-now-easy-page-2.html
Feasibility comments welcome. For instance, I used a payload estimator that only does a statistical estimation, i.e., not a true trajectory simulation. I'd be appreciative of anyone doing an Orbital trajectory simulation to see what it says about capabilities of the rocket.
Bob Clark
