From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 11:38:10 MDT
--- Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> At 08:57 PM 8/26/02 -0700, Spike wrote:
>
> >OK, so you climb to the top of a 100 km tower with a payload.
> >Now what? You are about 3% of the way to orbit.
>
> You're in near vacuum. Doesn't that count for anything? As I recall,
> JoSH
> proposes a 10 g linear accelerator at the top.
Well, you can jump off with a rocket motor on your butt and skip off
the upper atmosphere until you reach orbital velocity, if youve got a
lifting body design.
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