Statistics:

• 85 contraptions
• 59 frames
• 100 images
• 3 tables

Author: Andrew Nowicki

Acknowledgments: Andrew J. Higgins provided much valuable information about guns and ram accelerators. Enrico Lorenzini, Jerome Pearson, Geoffrey A. Landis, Keith H. Lofstrom, and Derek A. Tidman discussed ideas included in this publication.

Copyright: Copy it right to your hard disk and disseminate by all means. Here is a self-extracting 1.2 MB zip file for your convenience: SPBI1.EXE.

ISSUES

• INTRODUCTION
• STRUCTURAL MATERIALS
• AIR-BREATHING ENGINES
• GUNS
• TAPERED SLINGS
• ORBITAL GREENHOUSES

APPLICATIONS

1. CHEMICAL ROCKET LAUNCHER
2. TURBOENGINES
3. NUCLEAR ROCKET LAUNCHERS
4. RAMJET AND ITS KIN
5. ELECTROTHERMAL RAMJET AND ROCKET
6. RAM ACCELERATOR
7. ONE STAGE LIGHT GAS GUN
8. TWO STAGE LIGHT GAS GUN
9. VORTEX GUN AND ITS KIN
10. ICE GUN
11. MAGLEV TRAIN
12. COILGUN
13. RAILGUN
14. PROJECTILE - ROCKET RELAY
15. LASER AND MICROWAVE ROCKETS
16. LAUNCH LOOP
17. ELEVATOR SUPPORTED BY FOUNTAIN
18. ORBITING DIAMAGNETIC PARTICLES
19. GEOSTATIONARY TOWER
20. SKYHOOK
21. SKYHOOK ON TOWER
22. ORBITAL SLINGS
23. SLING ON TOWER
24. GUNSLING RELAY
25. SLINGATRON
26. ORBITAL ELEVATOR
27. ORBITAL RING
28. ORBITAL COILGUN
29. ROTATING ORBITAL PIPE
30. ELECTROTUBE
31. ORBITAL LOOP
32. MOON-EARTH MOMENTUM EXCHANGE
33. GEOMAGNETIC LEVITATION
34. EXPLOSIVE ACCELERATORS

Curator: Al Globus If you find any errors on this page contact Al Globus.

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