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Old March 1st 18, 10:17 PM posted to sci.space.policy
David Spain
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On 3/1/2018 5:05 PM, David Spain wrote:
These g loads are tremendous. I'd like to see the rocket motor that
could survive them (10,000 g) to provide the needed kick at apogee.


Even if you are using a evacuated launch tube, you'll be pulling
tremendous negative g's when slamming into the atmosphere at launch
point. Maybe that's the bulk of the g load? Oops I see I misread the g
load originally by a factor of 4 to 6x. So make that 40-60,000g's.

Yah.

Dave