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This brings back some the old memories;
The old L-5 Society was going to use a similar method to assemble material at LaGrange points in order to build 'O'Neill Space Habitats'.
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On Wed, 5/25/16, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: Multi Jumping is no big deal since LBB5v1, was Re: Incredibly efficient! was Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & mi
To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
Cc: "Tim" <xxxxxx@little-possums.net>
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2016, 9:53 AM
For really
low-margin, high-bulk, non-perishable cargoes, I can easily
see ballistic trajectories being used, with tugs pushing
"barges" onto the right transfer trajectory, and
other tugs catching them at the destination. The
"barge" would just need to be a framework to hold
the cargo together. Depending on your m-drive and
g-compensator model, it would probably not even have to deal
with acceleration stresses.
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at
7:30 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Tim
<xxxxxx@little-possums.net>
wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:36:45PM -0700, (via tml
list) wrote:
>> On 24 May 2016 at 0:15, Phil Pugliese (via tml
list) wrote:
>> > How far would you have to be travelling in
order to require, let's say
>> > it's the standard 'scout ship', a
two-week constant 2G accell (towards
>> > the 'target'), a coasting time of one
week, & then a two-week decell
>> > in order to arrive w/ only a small relative
diff in velocity?
>>
>> If you have jump drive you'd never do this
unless you *wanted* to
>> waste a month for some reason. Because you can do
it in a week by
>> using the jump drive.
>
> If you have the jump fuel to waste, yes. There are
plenty of reasons
> why you might want to get to the destination with full
tanks.
>
Or it might be an in-system cargo hauler, where
there's economic
advantage to not having 10% of the hull taken up by fuel and
the
expense of a J-drive
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