Abstract:Current space launch is expensive and low-efficient because the invalid load----rocket and fuel in it occupies over 80% of the total launch weight. A solution to reduce the space launch cost and increase the launch efficiency is to construct the evacuated tube, pump air out from the tube and have the maglev vehicle loaded with the spacecraft run in it; the spacecraft fly out the tube when the maglev is accelerated to ultra-speed, e.g. 5km/s even 8km/s in the tube. By this way, the first class of the rocket cou… Show more
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