http://spacemonitor.blogspot.com/2007/03/magnetic-launch-system.html
Dream Big,
Dan
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Magnetoverse: Rails-To-Launcher Technologies...
Old railway right-of-ways are routinely converted to bicycle and pedestrian trails as traditional railroad companies have abandoned them over the last fifty years. Interestingly enough, an old railway might be the ideal place to instal a magnetic space launch facility, especially if the last few miles includes an uphill grade facing East.
If you had three sets of rails, one in the center and two to either side, you could build a maglauncher in modular sections, using a rail-mobile crane to add sections as they're built. As soon as you have enough sections installed, you could begin launching G-hardened payloads at high-G acceleration. You then stop operations for an hour or so as you add each new section. As more sections are added, you can start launching "softer" payloads, until you get a long-enough launcher to put biological organisms and delicate instruments into space.
This arrangement becomes even more useful if it can be built in the Mojave Desert States, where solar power is plentiful and can be used all along the maglauncher to make it non-dependent on the existing power grid.
The first country to fully develop such technologies will dominate space, giving it an incredible advantage in expanding into the rest of the solar system for mining and agricultural operations.
Dream Big,
Dan
If you had three sets of rails, one in the center and two to either side, you could build a maglauncher in modular sections, using a rail-mobile crane to add sections as they're built. As soon as you have enough sections installed, you could begin launching G-hardened payloads at high-G acceleration. You then stop operations for an hour or so as you add each new section. As more sections are added, you can start launching "softer" payloads, until you get a long-enough launcher to put biological organisms and delicate instruments into space.
This arrangement becomes even more useful if it can be built in the Mojave Desert States, where solar power is plentiful and can be used all along the maglauncher to make it non-dependent on the existing power grid.
The first country to fully develop such technologies will dominate space, giving it an incredible advantage in expanding into the rest of the solar system for mining and agricultural operations.
Dream Big,
Dan
Magnetoverse: Magnetic Launch Ring Could Revolutionize Space Launches...
Think "particle accelerator meets maglev meets mass-driver." This device could wind up launching a payload per minute instead of a payload per year.
The sheer volume of launches that become possible with this technology would make the Moon as accessible as London from L.A. in our lifetimes. It could make Mars trips no worse than traveling from
New York to the West Coast a hundred years ago, without a hostile population opposing your visit.
http://www.launchpnt.com/portfolio/aerospace/satellite-launch-ring/
Check it out.
Dream Big,
Dan
The sheer volume of launches that become possible with this technology would make the Moon as accessible as London from L.A. in our lifetimes. It could make Mars trips no worse than traveling from
New York to the West Coast a hundred years ago, without a hostile population opposing your visit.
http://www.launchpnt.com/portfolio/aerospace/satellite-launch-ring/
Check it out.
Dream Big,
Dan
Saturday, January 22, 2011
MAGNETOVERSE: Blogging On A Radical Re-think Of Space Access
Magnetoverse is all about how we can use electricity instead of flames to achieve much better access to space in the long-term, for things like solar power satellites, space colonies, asteroid mines, and exploration of the local region of the galaxy. What we're doing now with giant firecrackers just won't cut it for really getting Humanity out into the cosmos. There's a better way, and a better vision. It's time to start talking about it.
Dan
Dan
Ok, I like this new blog template WAY better.
It just plain looks better. Now I can move on to outlining ideas.
Dan
Dan
I've been thinking about coming back here and filling this out a bit for awhile now...
There's so much more to this concept than what I've posted yet, and it really deserves to get out there. I'll have to see if I can do it in bits and pieces over the next few months.
My biggest problem is that I just have too many diverse interests and it's not so easy for me to settle on one thing without a good back-and-forth discussion going on. I have a few friends online who might have some insight into this too. I'll have to ask them to stop by and do some posting.
Soon!
Dan
My biggest problem is that I just have too many diverse interests and it's not so easy for me to settle on one thing without a good back-and-forth discussion going on. I have a few friends online who might have some insight into this too. I'll have to ask them to stop by and do some posting.
Soon!
Dan
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