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Thread: magnetic launch
# 16213 byHuebner, Jay on Jan. 5, 2002, 2:35 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22
RE: Lightcraft. Launching a "... 1.8 ounces (51 grams)...." space craft "
... 184 feet ..." with a "... 10 kW pulsed carbon dioxide laser ..." hardly
seems like much success, and I wonder if that technology can put any
significant mass in orbit. And what about the problems of light pollution,
which might blind surveillance satellites overhead looking down and anyone
on the ground who just happened to be looking up in the wrong direction?
Sincerely, Jay Huebner