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Flying Space Cannons!
Hi, sorry for my joke title, I was just being silly. The truth is I want to explore the possibility of performing low cost micro launches into space. I've had this idea for years but for lack of anyone to share it with I gave up on it but that guy wants to freefall/parachute from low orbit via weather ballon so I have decided to give it another go
The procedure is: 1) use a weather balloon to go 36 km up 2) attach a gun (more like a artilliary barrel) 3) point up until ballons about to burst 4) *BANG* fire a microload (~3 or 4 kg) 5) at apogee fire rocket motors on 3~4 kg bullet 6) catch 1 or 2 kilo mass in kevlar net in space 7) recover barrel (it has fins and can glide robotically) rinse repeat 50 or 60 times a minute (that is have 50 or 60 barrells a minute - - yes a minute - - shooting once each and descending by gliding - so thats thousands in the air at one time all returning to a air strip for new rounds and new balloons) purpose? To send basically "lego" into space - use computers on earth and robots in space to build (slowly) space ships and fuel them but doing everything in tiny bits I don't want flames or "lolz" I would genuinely like peoples guestimates on the amount of propellant needed and how large the charge on the gun would have to be Last edited by ConanMan : October 10th 12 at 12:30 AM. |
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