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Say you had a perfect space launch system.
Let's say the regulars around sci.space managed to come up with a
near-perfect space launch system and agree about it being the best. Let's say 100M US$ to build a system that launches 1000kg at a time at 5g max accel., launching up to 10M kg/yr directly to LEO without a need for a circularization burn, at an inherent cost below 6 US$/kg, a system powered by electricity on the ground, with efficiency above 90%, low environmental impact, using continuous power, and with marginal tourism value. Unfortunately, the system does not scale down well, so you can't build a very convincing test model on the ground. Alright, where would you go from there? How would you go about getting it built? |
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