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Post by gyratron on Mar 1, 2019 23:48:37 GMT
It turns out you can do vertical staging for large payloads much cheaper and lighter by making a wafer thin 100w potassium coilgun instead of a blast launcher. The firing time may be half an hour or more but the first projectile fires instantly so it doesn't matter.
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Post by dragonkid11 on Mar 2, 2019 4:47:36 GMT
It turns out you can do vertical staging for large payloads much cheaper and lighter by making a wafer thin 100w potassium coilgun instead of a blast launcher. The firing time may be half an hour or more but the first projectile fires instantly so it doesn't matter. Huh, how? What would the launch speed be?
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Post by AtomHeartDragon on Mar 2, 2019 10:47:56 GMT
It turns out you can do vertical staging for large payloads much cheaper and lighter by making a wafer thin 100w potassium coilgun instead of a blast launcher. The firing time may be half an hour or more but the first projectile fires instantly so it doesn't matter. Huh, how? What would the launch speed be? For staging it shouldn't really matter, should it?
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