{"id":1258,"date":"2013-03-21T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T15:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2013-03-21T15:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T15:09:07","slug":"the-frankenfalcon-rocket-navy-railguns-as-lunar-mass-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"The FrankenFalcon rocket + Navy railguns as lunar mass drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Hare considers the capability of a monster (in more ways than one) rocket that combines a stretched SpaceX Falcon 9 with\u00a0 Shuttle solid rocket boosters to put about 140 tons into orbit: SFalconLS – Selenian Boondocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nChuck Lesher notes that\u00a0 Navy railgun development has reached a level of capability already sufficient to hurl small amounts of material from the Moon at escape velocities: Is the US Navy Preparing to Conquer Space? – Moonandback<\/a><\/p>\n

Even at this early stage, the railgun is already capable of launching a 23 pound payload off the surface of the moon. We have our mass driver but getting it operational on the moon along with all the support needed to supply it with payloads\u2026 well, solving that problem must wait for another blog entry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Hare considers the capability of a monster (in more ways than one) rocket that combines a stretched SpaceX Falcon 9 with\u00a0 Shuttle solid rocket boosters to put about 140 tons into orbit: SFalconLS – Selenian Boondocks. === Chuck Lesher notes that\u00a0 Navy railgun development has reached a level of capability already sufficient to hurl … Continue reading The FrankenFalcon rocket + Navy railguns as lunar mass drivers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockets","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-ki","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16420,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16420","url_meta":{"origin":1258,"position":0},"title":"Video: Israel’s non-profit SpaceIL project contracts SpaceX for launch of lunar lander","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The non-profit volunteer Israeli organization SpaceIL announced last week that they had contracted SpaceX to launch a small spacecraft\u00a0in December on a Falcon 9 rocket . 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