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Getting Into The Private Space Race
powerbarr writes "This article has an excellent description of the issues of getting into the rocket industry without government funding and focuses on one startup that is doing it. Sea Launch is a subsidiary of American, Russian, Ukrainian, and Norwegian companies that has cheaper, more accurate, and more reliable launch system that is trying to compete with all the government sponsored systems that are more expensive and less reliable."
You know about that newton guy right? Had a unit named after him?
1. You need a balloon that is 100 times bigger to lift the same amount of weight where the atmosphere is 99% thinner.
2. For every action...
When you fire this thing, the balloon is going to recoil just as much as the projectile.
BTW-I thought the files on totse were old BBS files and a lot of really weird stuff.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Sea Launch is a joint project between Boeing, Energiya Ukrainiya, and a Norwegian company that makes oil platforms. All three are private companies, but they are tightly tied to their respective countries' military-industrial complexes. I'll take Elon Musk or Burt Rutan any day of the week and twice on Sunday over these guys. (Check previous Slashdot stories.)
Your friendly neighborhood nitpicker
Yes, it is lacking on the theory side , your right .
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Yes, you are correct, none of the articles are
about balloon launches
The ballon raised platform is my own idea
But a short burst recoil is not going to move a
huge multi-ton platform that much and you have to
consider time constants in equations as well
Also the platform is going to have drag against
the recoil
The short time constant, aka firing time, and
the drag of the platform , ie. converting
the recoil into acceleration of the huge platform
has to be figured as well
Like firing a machine gun, the last round fired
kicks the hardest , and recoil absorbers have been
made
In army boot camp that I have not attended they
fire the m16 off sensitive body parts to demonstrate this
Recoil can be dealt with
Larger issues are dealt with daily
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
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