Author Topic: spacex will let you launch a satellite into space for $1 million  (Read 1158 times)

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badspot please allocate our blockland key money towards launching a big fast rocket into space and beam down after school special to everyone in the world

in other words none of us will ever launch one



don't you think it'd be much cheaper just to make your own?

there is plenty of footage online of people building their own rockets and sending them up, unfortunately it seems no one has tried sending a satellite yet

« Last Edit: February 07, 2020, 06:14:53 AM by Goth77 »

earth crimes arent illegal in space

don't you think it'd be much cheaper just to make your own?

there is plenty of footage online of people building their own rockets and sending them up, unfortunately it seems no one has tried sending a satellite yet


the difference is sending something to space is not hard

sending something to orbit is a whole different can of worms, you need to go up AND sideways at incredible speeds

for reference, to get into an orbit at the height of the ISS (400km up) you need to be going 4.76 miles per second sideways. This means you need a huge rocket and that makes it really complicated.

this is the reason only a select few countries have ever reached orbit

its also why rocket launches are typically done nearer to the equator (eg florida) - can make use of the rotation of the earth to reduce fuel/rocket requirements

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There's a simpler way to go about that, you just have to go straight out and then make a quick 90ish degree angle and your good to goooooo!

There's a simpler way to go about that, you just have to go straight out and then make a quick 90ish degree angle and your good to goooooo!
i mean yeah, but thats very inefficient and a gravity turn would be more optimal

There's a simpler way to go about that, you just have to go straight out and then make a quick 90ish degree angle and your good to goooooo!
don't be ridiculous, all you need to do is go really high. gravity will take care of the rest. who said rocket science was hard?

of course rocket science is hard. its not like the rockets or their payloads are soft, they wouldnt survive takeoff with all the thrust generated

Pretty good price for businesses looking to go orbital