OK , Im going to use the "for comparison" in the quote
below from the wiki rail gun page.
Therefore, typical military railgun designs aim
for muzzle velocities in the range of 2000–3500 m/s
with muzzle energies of 5–50 MJ.
For comparison, 50MJ is equivalent to the kinetic energy of a
school bus weighing 5 metric tons, travelling at 509 km/h (316 mph).
1 metric ton = 1000 kg
5 tons @ 509 km/h = 141.38 m/s
1 ton @ 2545 km/h = 706.94 m/s
((509,000 m/h * 5 )/ 3600 seconds)
1 kg @ 295,000 km/h = 706,944.44 m/s
((509,000 m/h * 5000 )/ 3600 seconds)
so the 50 MJ/MW electricity could propel my
1 kg payload to a velocity of over 700 km/second !
LOE is from 91 km to 2000 km ...
looks like the 1 kg payload will need to apply
brakes of some sorts to stay in LOE.
because in 3 seconds it will be at a altitude
of over 2100 km ... plus the 128,000 ft it started with.
I know that would probably vaporise the rails among other
things so lets scale it down a bit...
so lets go with a 1 ton satellite , should hit apx 91 km
in around 128 seconds or 2000 km in apx 47 minutes.
and the satellites can attach themselves to each other
to form larger ones if needed by worker droids or rov
worker satellites.
still havent lost the issue yet I dont think.
