Mass driver

An electromagnetic catapult or mass driver is a proposed concept for launching payloads or spaceships into space. The object to be accelerated should be accelerated to a high speed on a kilometer-long, straight stretch similar to the functional principle of a magnetic levitation train . This is intended to provide a large part of the energy required to achieve a stable orbit while stationary and to reduce transport costs. To transport passengers, the system must be greatly enlarged or lengthened in order to avoid excessive acceleration forces. A model test presented at MIT in 1977 should also be used on the moon.

Concept of a moon base with a mass driver (elongated structure)
NASA StarTram demonstrator
NASA MagLifter Concept

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Short description at Adventure Universe

Individual evidence

↑ Chapter: Electromagnetic catapult drive. In: Eugen Reichl: Typenkompass: Zukunftsprojekte der Raumfahrt , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-613-03462-4 , pp. 27-30
↑ Pamela Burke, Maynard Slaughter, C. Neil Beer: MagLifter Site Investigation and Implementation Strategies . Ed .: NASA. November 28, 1995 ( nasa.gov [accessed June 12, 2020]).
^ L-5 News. In: Internet Archive. L-5 Society, USA, June 1977, accessed June 12, 2020 .

[1] Chapter: Electromagnetic catapult drive. In: Eugen Reichl: Typenkompass: Zukunftsprojekte der Raumfahrt , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-613-03462-4 , pp. 27-30

[2] Pamela Burke, Maynard Slaughter, C. Neil Beer: MagLifter Site Investigation and Implementation Strategies . Ed .: NASA. November 28, 1995 ( nasa.gov [accessed June 12, 2020]).

[3] L-5 News. In: Internet Archive. L-5 Society, USA, June 1977, accessed June 12, 2020 .