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15657532 No.15657532 [Reply] [Original]

What would it mean if we could send payloads to orbit for $10 a kg

>> No.15657609
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>>15657532
Even without accounting for atmospheric drag:
>some 15,000 m/s (33,500 mph) required at launch to reach low earth orbit
I’d say not.
Positron assisted SSTO would be my best bet for cheap orbital delivery.

>> No.15657629

it means global economic meltdown

>> No.15657632

>>15657532
It means that it'd cost $3000 to send you

>> No.15657667

>>15657629
How so?

>> No.15658209

>>15657632
Imagine sending his mom

>> No.15658822
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>>15657532
Use a launch loop. Many times better, you can put living humans on it and have them stay alive all the way to orbit. Cost estimate ~$20 billion dollars. Lofstrom loop. Also can be used for power storage and distribution.

>> No.15658830

>>15658822
>~$20 billion
it cost $5 billion just to make a sports stadium. That would cost hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars if it was even possible

>> No.15658846

>>>/sci/sfg/

>> No.15659137

>>15658830
don't bitch to me, take up the matter with mr loffstrom, he wrote the paper, he did the costings.

Its just a giant magnetic bearing, not hard.

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>>15657667
Not that anon but cheap space launch would make asteroid mining economically feasible, which would completely obliterate the precious metals market.