Lunar Dragger

>
> >But most of it will be vaporized by the heat
>
> Well we have to over engineer it for a margin of safety, so the margin of
> safety should be available. Also there is the length of material that is

The margin of safety is there to account for transients in stress,
I have not given any consideration to the thermal energy ablation rate.

There might be little margin from that aspect.

> spanning the distance from the craft to the surface which would not be
> abraded, and thus would be less likely to be vaporized. Also, we have all
> of the material that is left on the spool that we use for playing the line
> in and out.
>
> This would still appear to be a fairly decent amount of carbon that we could
> recover.
>

Yes.

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