Timeline for Would launching a shuttle from a 45 degree angle be the most fuel efficient for a rail gun?
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| Nov 14, 2017 at 18:07 | comment | added | Tristan | @RogerLipscombe At a 45 degree incline, maybe the term "space escalator" is more apt. | |
| Nov 14, 2017 at 10:46 | comment | added | Roger Lipscombe | Ignoring the curvature of the Earth, an 800km rail at 45 degrees puts you 565km up -- 5 times higher than the Karman line. Seems to me that what you've got here is a space elevator. | |
| Nov 14, 2017 at 8:58 | history | edited | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed math error
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| Nov 13, 2017 at 22:47 | comment | added | Uwe | Even if burning up the spacecraft could be avoided, after leaving the atmosphere the spacecraft would have lost almost all of its initial speed due to the drag of the atmosphere. | |
| Nov 13, 2017 at 20:39 | history | answered | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |