Re:The Pentagon’s electromagnetic ‘rail gun’ makes its publi...
by Symmetry on Monday February 09, 2015 @04:31PM
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Other people have mentioned why you wouldn't want to use a railgun to get a payload into orbit in one go. However, the exponential nature of the rocket equation means that every km/s you can get to start with has a large effect on what fraction of your rocket has to be fuel.
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