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And read "Limited work may be continued on Orion" from AW May 10 1965 published above.About a possible NASA rescue(1964)View attachment 721808
And read "Limited work may be continued on Orion" from AW May 10 1965 published above.About a possible NASA rescue(1964)View attachment 721808
You are right, we don’t have (yet?) Death Star; but here the problem was the level of atmosphérique radioactivity at the beginning of 60s; hence the treaty of interdiction of nuclear explosions in the atmosphere. Ok after 10-20 years that level decreased to small (normal ?) levels.??? Even the Tsar bomb is *many* orders of magnitude too weak to damage the planet in any material fashion.
About 880 tons.1 kt of yield pulse unit for the small 10m Orion! That’s a lot!
What was the mass of the 10m Orion?
You could certainly generate pretty ludicrous thrust that way, one interpretation of the Epstein Drive from the Expanse is as a pure-fusion magnetic sail Orion/Daedalus drive.Pure fusion devices may need to come along.
Folks, after watching Hazegrayart video too many times (Orion interstellar ark) I think the solution to lift Orion away from Earth is... a big cluster of Aerojet 260 inch SRBs. A four stages, all solid monster rocket. In the early days of Apollo was a concept for an all-solid Nova; imagine that with only 260 inch SRBs.
Folks, after watching Hazegrayart video too many times (Orion interstellar ark) I think the solution to lift Orion away from Earth is... a big cluster of Aerojet 260 inch SRBs. A four stages, all solid monster rocket. In the early days of Apollo was a concept for an all-solid Nova; imagine that with only 260 inch SRBs.