Question Quicklaunch SSTO fuel depot

[Notebook]

Did a search on this, couldn't find anything, and its new to me.



Reminds me a bit of the Slingatron, only its not of course..



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[Urwumpe]

Sounds a bit optimistic.

 

[Spacethingy]

Thing is, how is anything remotely delicate going to survive... (quick back of envelope calculation..........)

...17,500g?!

I thought cannon techniques were only any good for kinetic weapons. And firing UMMUs into outer space in Orbiter.

You're right about the optimism. I was starting to wonder why on Earth NASA wasted time with the Shuttle and didn't switch to hydrogen cannons...

 

[Artlav]

Quick and cheap launch of bulk material into orbit.
Instead of launching tiny whole modules you launch a box of girders and plates, and weld a big station in orbit.

Or just fire a fuel tank. A big piece of palladium full of hydrogen, or a metallic sponge filled with kerosene, etc. Survival is not so big an issue.

 

[Grover]

very optimistic if you ask me, and putting pressures like that inside a "tube" is just asking for trouble

just stick with the traditional (launch a huge rocket) technique; its worked thus far