Timeline for Horizontal space launch from a ramp [duplicate]
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 17, 2015 at 5:45 | comment | added | Deer Hunter | Mikhail V, now you have a system that has already been suggested. ASM-135 ASAT,Pegasus ; Pegasus II ; Burlak, and SpaceShip One. | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 3:37 | comment | added | Mikhail V | @HopDavid I've added few details about angles. Speeds in thick air should be safe (not too stressing for the whole vehicle). | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 3:02 | history | edited | Mikhail V | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2015 at 2:52 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Aug 17, 2015 at 2:34 | history | edited | Mikhail V | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 16, 2015 at 21:14 | history | closed |
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Duplicate of Why don't we use catapults to get to space?, What would make a rocket sled launch feasible? | |
| Aug 16, 2015 at 20:12 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 16, 2015 at 14:08 | comment | added | HopDavid | I want to give some numbers but scenario is too vague. What speed is this launch supposed to achieve? What's flight path angle at the end of ramp? What's the altitude at the end of the ramp? If this launch is supposed to achieve orbital velocity in the troposphere, you are subjecting the space craft to an extremely high dynamic pressure. | |
| Aug 16, 2015 at 10:42 | answer | added | Hobbes | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 16, 2015 at 5:22 | comment | added | TildalWave | It's also a possible duplicate of Why don't we use catapults to get to space? or What would make a rocket sled launch feasible? or Is non-evacuated tube maglev launch possible?, and so on. It's definitely a recurring theme here and it would help if you asked a more specific question than why can't we use it? | |
| Aug 16, 2015 at 5:11 | comment | added | TildalWave | This is too broad. What you're describing is a rocket sled launch, but it goes by many other names, too. See e.g. Argus maglifter launch assist and search for all kinds of similar concepts on NASA Technical Report Server with "launch assist" keywords. It's a well defined concept that didn't yet materialize for a number of reasons. | |
| Aug 16, 2015 at 4:49 | history | edited | Mikhail V | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 16, 2015 at 1:42 | history | edited | Andrew Thompson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 15, 2015 at 9:04 | comment | added | Vedant Chandra | It's not going to be in the atmosphere for just a bit longer. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 5:51 | answer | added | aeroalias | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 4:37 | comment | added | Mikhail V | @DeerHunter do you mean, lift off is not the same as launch? | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 4:27 | comment | added | Mikhail V | @NathanTuggy because it could be constantly accelereted and inertia helps here a lot. Here we don't need to lift the whole mass in first seconds on start. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 4:24 | comment | added | Deer Hunter | Are you suggesting an unguided rocket? Please note there is no vertical launch. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 4:21 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | I'm not clear why mechanical stress would be lower for a horizontal launch. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 4:15 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 15, 2015 at 4:14 | history | asked | Mikhail V | CC BY-SA 3.0 |