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I'd give serous consideration to a race-track like architecture with
long straightaways for assembly and the launch/landing pads at the short straights between the curves on the oval. Like so: Service Bay Service Bay Service Bay .-------Z------------Y--------------X--------. | | Pad-A Pad-B | | .-------X'-----------Y'-------------Z'-------. Direction of Travel: --- I would also stack Starship in reverse order. So Service Bay X and X' assembly the nose. That is then raised and the upper and lower rings and tanks assembled below at Y and Y' and finally the Raptors are installed at Z and Z'. This simplifies launch platform and bay design because everything works on one-level. Whether the bays themselves have doorways remains to be seen. It would have advantages. Everything is moved around the track on rails using diesel-electric locomotives. Not shown are the sidings used to house the locomotives, etc. when not is use. When merely cycling Raptors you might then need to have vertical stations in bays X/X' and Y/Y' since you are not doing any assembly. But then no heavy lifting required either. Interestingly enough Z/Z' don't need vertical access. You can play around with this to your heart's content... Dave |
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