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- bigfoot is a 29 year old guy from Ohio, USA.
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"One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame."
-Willa Cather, "le Lavandou"
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"A launch loop or Lofstrom loop is a design for a belt based maglev orbital launch system that would be around 2000 km long and maintained at an altitude of up to 80 km (50 mi). It provides a potential way of non-rocket spacelaunch..
The published cost estimates for a working launch loop are significantly lower than a space elevator, with a greater launch capacity, lower payload costs and similar or greater payload masses; and unlike the space elevator no new materials need to be developed.
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Launch loops launch are expected to launch at high rates (many launches per hour, independent of weather), and are not inherently polluting (rockets create pollution such as nitrates in their exhausts due to high exhaust temperature, and can create greenhouse gases depending on propellant choices)..
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Launch loops are intended for human transportation, and give a safe 3g acceleration which the vast majority of people would be capable of tolerating well..
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Finally, their low payload costs is compatible with large-scale commercial space tourism and even space colonisation."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop]
daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/magnetic_levitation_launch-assist.html [daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/magnetic_levitation_launch-assist.html]
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"Consider that the first magnetic launch systems are expected to propel payloads into orbit at a cost of roughly $750/lb, already a significant improvement over the current rocket-launched cost of around $4,000/lb."
*The savings incurred from this proposed method of space launch could pay for a whole lot of maglev trains and railways.
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