[ExI] Rocket lander control systems

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 00:53:53 UTC 2021


On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 22:02, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Imagine four sturdy towers with a mesh net made of nylon cord of about 3 cm diameter with cord centers at about 30 cm.  The cords are attached at every intersection by something flimsy that will break, such as zip ties, just strong enough to hold the cords in place in a mesh configuration.
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<snip catch it in a net>
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> spike
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It's called the Super Heavy Booster because it is *heavy*.  :)
I think the dry weight of Stage 1 is about 300 metric tons.
Gotta get a really big strong net!


BillK



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