[ExI] Getting into space cheaply

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:00 AM,  Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How do you get the energy to the rocket on the far side of the planet from
>> the beam source?  Or would this require multiple beam emitters, spread
>> around the planet?
>
> It goes into orbit in less distance than what you can see from GEO, in
> the particular run on that spread sheet it took about 4,600 km to
> reach orbital speed.

Irrelevant.  Upon launch, the satellite has an elliptical orbit.  It has to
undergo acceleration at the far side of the planet in order to achieve a
circular orbit.  Since that point is not within line of sight of the launch
point, no matter what its altitude, how are you getting energy to it at
that point?