A Hypersonic Shift: Exploring Cheaper, Safer Space Travel with Longshot Space
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- The Garage by Credo is a podcast about invention and innovation, exploring the minds of innovators throughout history and shining a light on the products that are transforming the world today.
Through conversations with entrepreneurs, inventors, garage tinkerers, and other passionate creators, this show will bring listeners inside the metaphorical, and oftentimes literal, garages of the world, exploring the potential for world-changing ideas that often originate from the most unlikely of places.
In this episode we are joined by Mike Grace, CEO at Longshot Space. Longshot is building a hypersonic launch system in Oakland, California. Their approach is poised to make access to space dramatically less expensive, which according to their mission, will help expand human activity in space by orders of magnitude.
Today, we’ll take a short journey back in time, to explore the origins of the modern rocket. In so doing, we’ll attempt to answer the question, “why do we go to space with rockets?”, and what does the future look like if we were to uncover a cheaper and less lethal alternative.
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A fun interview Ray! Thanks for doing it. The captions are little off, but frequently hilarious.
This doubles as a comedy podcast. Also, intern is getting fired
There are a few "downsides" that come with every space cannon. The projectile has to be a mixture of a classical projectile and a rocket. So it needs a "weight" or some kind of cone like head which works as a heat shield too for FOC (forward of center), the enormous friction generated by travelling supersonic through the air etc. This metal "head" has to be dropped and then a small rocket motor has to bring the "cargo" into an orbit, probably even has to dock on some satellite or space station ... So I'd say designing the projectile is as difficult as designing a rocket. So better the metal head of the projectile does not fall down where anyone is living. It is like a small meteorite .... let's say the projectile's mass is just 100 kg then probably the metal head is half of it but you probably want to scale it bigger so probably you want one ton or more, thus the metal head has to go bigger and having a solid metal object coming down with the speed and size of some of the larger meteorites is not what you want. So you have a scaling problem for the projectile.
They said the same thing about the rail gun.
Yeah, but they were wrong. I'm right.
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The inaccurate closed captions are really distracting. "Mach 50", "Back 5", "Nassar", "Lancia", "Couple" ...
If I was you, I would just remove the hard subs. The UA-cam subtitles are way better. They don't contain as many errors.
Anyone who requires or prefers subtitles on their videos will probably have the UA-cam closed captions enabled anyways.