Re: [OFFICIAL] Freighters/Merchants question....

on 04.11.11 10:26 AM, Bill Brush wrote:
> 
> Thinking about this, I can foresee some fairly serious design issues. 
The
> biggest, is  how do you stop the string once you have it in motion?
> Conservation of momentum is going to be a real thorny problem if
you've got
> a string of containers a couple miles long let alone a couple of
hundred.
> There might not be any gravity to worry about, but mass doesn't change
just
> because your out of the atmosphere.

The cost in deltaV is the same in either case... And the sphere (or
other
hull) costs more in materials. The rest is just an engineering problem
(he
says glibly)...

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