Oct 9, 2025
Mass Drivers?
I have commented about Rail Guns on The Moon for years, but I thought the Earths Gravity would be too strong for Rail Guns to be a realistic way to leave Earth. @HelloFromSpaceAus explains how Screw Launch would work. I like how it uses magnets and a vacuum tube, but it screws its way to use kinetic energy to launch to orbit. The cost of building the infrastructure to use a system like this is…
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