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It does come at the cost of some launchpad expansions and increased fuel requirements, but that all comes out of the facility's budget.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3291/
From the "Futurama solves global warming" school of thought.
You laugh, but China made a big-budget action movie about this very concept.
The end with lots of fire coming out should point towards the ground.
If it points towards space, that's a big problem, and we will not go to space this day :/
This reminds me there was a project about 10-15(?) years ago where they were trying to rig the F15 with an attachment to launch satellites in quick need situations. The F15A shot down a satellite in 1985, so it makes sense it could put one up there as well. Think they ended up terminating the program because it became cheaper to launch them in mass.
Aka they probably just took it out of the public eye
I still say we should mount rockets into a rollercoaster rail🎢 that way stage one can be spent on the ground doing a horizontal launch and then the rail would have to change the angle to be more horizontal
Just do it in the winter, otherwise it might get too hot...
STOP GIVING ELON IDEAS
Kerbal launch cannon go brrrr
Wrong approach, if they are going to the moon they need to attach engines to the moon and bring it closer
This kills the planet. ☹️
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