"jody lee" wrote in message ...


They need to change there approach, bigger rockets are not the answer.
smaller satellites and probes is the answer they need to go miniature
even Nano. surely a Nano probe could be fired into space (not orbit)
from a ground based canon. either that or put all there efforts into the
space elevator.


Guns into orbit from Earth don't work overly well.

The drag from the atmosphere is a huge problem. And something smaller in
some ways is even worse (less momentum).

And you can't get into orbit using JUST a gun, need something to circularize
it.






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