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Question Viability of ballistically propelled "traveling salesman" space stations
I'm interested in the viability of the following scheme for (relatively) fast space commerce within the Solar System: have a fleet of space stations essentially built around a long linear accelerator. Stations don't have heavy-duty engines, but do have attitude engines able to (slightly) modify orb...
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about 7 years ago
Question What's wrong with moving cables for a Space Elevator?
Ok, Space Elevators have fallen out of the limelight, sorry for them, but the concept is intriguing just the same, so here it goes. One of the worst problem space elevators face is the fact that they are not elevators at all; they are structures, instead, that allow a "crawler" to climb them, with e...
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about 7 years ago