Once the catcher is high enough it ought to be possible to set the
launcher so that missed catches zip round Earth & head out. After all,
at Lunar OV it "wants" to be in a high orbit. Achieving re-entry
through Earth's atmosphere - sorry that should be "entry" it wasn't here
in the first place -
At 01:14 PM 10/2/2001 +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Steve Schear wrote:
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> > At 01:25 PM 10/1/2001 -0400, James B. DiGriz wrote:
> > >Declan McCullagh wrote:
> > >A far more productive application of corporate welfare would be if that
> > >money were spent on engineering researc
At 08:12 AM 10/2/01 -0700, Matt Beland wrote:
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>On Tuesday 02 October 2001 07:43 am, David Honig wrote:
>> At 02:00 PM 10/2/01 +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
>> >And if you can put up a bloody huge enough launcher on the moon, (use
>> >solar energy or nucl
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On Tuesday 02 October 2001 07:43 am, David Honig wrote:
> At 02:00 PM 10/2/01 +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
> >And if you can put up a bloody huge enough launcher on the moon, (use
> >solar energy or nuclear - why not - it is one place in the system that
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On Tuesday 02 October 2001 06:00 am, Ken Brown wrote:
> Eugene Leitl wrote:
> > Problem is high LEO launch costs. It would seem easier to build automated
> > and teleoperate fabbing and (linear motor) launching facilities on Luna,
> > and circularize
At 02:00 PM 10/2/01 +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
>And if you can put up a bloody huge enough launcher on the moon, (use
>solar energy or nuclear - why not - it is one place in the system that
>we don't care about pollution) then you can send material back all the
>way to LEO by slingshot, and when it i
Eugene Leitl wrote:
> Problem is high LEO launch costs. It would seem easier to build automated
> and teleoperate fabbing and (linear motor) launching facilities on Luna,
> and circularize orbit mostly by aerobraking.
And if you can put up a bloody huge enough launcher on the moon, (use
solar en
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Steve Schear wrote:
> At 01:25 PM 10/1/2001 -0400, James B. DiGriz wrote:
> >Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >A far more productive application of corporate welfare would be if that
> >money were spent on engineering research and development of geosynchronous
> >solar power microwav
