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How could you use this for manned flight? Assuming a (best-case) linear acceleration, accelerating to 25000 mph over 1 km would be 12736 g.
by KaiP 17y ago
How could you use this for manned flight? Assuming a (best-case) linear acceleration, accelerating to 25000 mph over 1 km would be 12736 g.
- hristov 17y agoYou would use it just to lift the rocket fuel for manned flight. It would lift rocket fuel which would be stored in depots in orbit. The astronauts would come on conventional rockets. But then they would be able to refuel from the orbital depots for the later stages of their flight instead of having to carry all fuel with them. Thus, you make the mission cheaper. You still need really stable rocket fuel in order to handle those accelerations without exploding.
- KaiP 17y agoAh okay, thanks for the explanation.