Re: booster catch didnt happen this time

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:44:35 +0000, Bertietaylor wrote:

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 6:41:48 +0000, jojo wrote:
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but i guarantee you that we will have one more flight before the
end of the year, in december, and that will be a wrap for the
great year of 2024.

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Nothing more stupid than rockets for space. Rockets are for fireworks,
to quote Arindam.
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Woof-woof what fools these apes be!
>
Bertietaylor (Arindam's celestial cyberdogs)

Concluding lines from a peer-reviewed 2013 paper by Arindam Banerjee
(related to his PhD work)
The current literature does not  satisfactorily resolve theoretical and
experimental results as regards the recoil in rail guns.  This is an
important issue to resolve as there are new and valuable applications
possible if recoil does not occur.
In the past, rail gun research was used for military purposes, and this
trend continues. The stress was on making very high velocity
projectiles, for such purposes as knocking out incoming enemy missiles.
The lack of recoil in rail guns, as opposed to coil guns, has long been
noted.  For military purposes this may not be a big issue.  However, if
rail guns do not possess recoil or rather very low recoil as a closed
system, they could find use in many civilian applications when their
working efficiency is also suitably increased.  For instance, they could
be used on helicopter platforms to make holes in inaccessible cliff
faces for construction work. Uses for suitably modified rail guns could
be found in mining and civil engineering applications.  More
importantly, and also very hopefully, if indeed there can be a net
forward acceleration for the entire system with every firing, the rail
gun could act as a rocket motor.