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Launch loop not to scale. The red marked line is the moving loop itself, blue lines are stationary cables. A launch loop or Lofstrom loop is a proposed system for using a moving cable-like system situated inside a sheath attached to the at two ends and suspended above the in the middle. The design concept was published by and describes an system that would be around 2,000 km 1,240 mi long and maintained at an altitude of up to 80 km 50 mi. A launch loop would be held up at this altitude by the that circulates around the structure. This circulation, in effect, transfers the weight of the structure onto a pair of magnetic bearings, one at each end, which support it. Launch loops are intended to achieve of weighing 5 metric tons by them so that they are projected into Earth or even beyond. This would be achieved by the flat part of the cable which forms an acceleration track above the atmosphere. The system is designed to be suitable for launching humans for , and , and provides a relatively low. Launch loops were described by in November 1981 Reader's Forum of the News Letter, and in the August 1982 News. In 1982, published a series of papers in which described and described a form which he called Partial Orbital Ring System PORS. The launch loop idea was worked on in more detail around 1983—1985 by Lofstrom. It is a fleshed-out version of PORS specifically arranged to form a mag-lev acceleration track suitable for launching humans into space; but whereas the orbital ring used superconducting , launch loops use EMS. Launch loop accelerator section return cable not shown A launch loop is proposed to be a structure 2,000 km long and 80 km high. The loop runs along at 80 km above the earth for 2000 km then descends to earth before looping back on itself rising back to 80 km above the earth to follow the reverse path then looping back to the starting point. The loop would be in the form of a tube, known as the sheath. Floating within the sheath is another continuous tube, known as the rotor which is a sort of belt or chain. Ability to stay aloft When at rest, the loop is at ground level. The rotor is then accelerated up to speed. As the rotor speed increases, it curves to form an arc. The structure is held up by the force from the rotor, which attempts to follow a parabolic trajectory. The ground anchors force it to go parallel to the earth upon reaching the height of 80 kilometers. Once raised, the structure requires continuous power to overcome the energy dissipated. Additional energy would be needed to power any vehicles that are launched. Launching payloads To launch, vehicles are raised up on an 'elevator' cable that hangs down from the West station loading dock at 80 km, and placed on the track. The payload applies a magnetic field which generates in the fast-moving rotor. The payload then rides the rotor until it reaches the required , and leaves the track. The eddy current technique is compact, lightweight and powerful, but inefficient. With each launch the rotor temperature increases by 80 due to power dissipation. If launches are spaced too close together, the rotor temperature can approach 770 °C 1043 K , at which the iron rotor loses its properties and rotor containment is lost. Capacity and capabilities Closed orbits with a perigee of 80 km quite quickly decay and re-enter, but in addition to such orbits, a launch loop by itself would also be capable of directly injecting payloads into , trajectories past the , and other non closed orbits such as close to the. To access circular orbits using a launch loop a relatively small 'kick motor' would need to be launched with the payload which would fire at and would circularise the orbit. For insertion this would need to provide a of about 1. Launch loops in Lofstrom's design are placed close to the equator and can only directly access equatorial orbits. However other orbital planes might be reached via high altitude plane changes, lunar perturbations or aerodynamic techniques. Launch rate capacity of a launch loop is ultimately limited by the temperature and cooling rate of the rotor to 80 per hour, but that would require a 17 power station; a more modest 500 MW power station is sufficient for 35 launches per day. Economics For a launch loop to be economically viable it would require customers with sufficiently large payload launch requirements. Advantages of launch loops Compared to space elevators, no new high-tensile strength materials have to be developed, since the structure resists Earth's gravity by supporting its own weight with the kinetic energy of the moving loop, and not by tensile strength. Lofstrom's launch loops are expected to launch at high rates many launches per hour, independent of weather , and are not inherently polluting. Rockets create pollution such as nitrates in their exhausts due to high exhaust temperature, and can create greenhouse gases depending on propellant choices. Launch loops as a form of electric propulsion can be clean, and can be run on geothermal, nuclear, wind, solar or any other power source, even intermittent ones, as the system has huge built-in power storage capacity. Unlike space elevators which would have to travel through the over several days, launch loop passengers can be launched to low earth orbit, which is below the belts, or through them in a few hours. This would be a similar situation to that faced by the Apollo astronauts, who had radiation doses 200 times lower than the space elevator would give. Unlike space elevators which are subjected to the risks of space debris and meteorites along their whole length, launch loops are to be situated at an altitude where orbits are unstable due to air drag. Since debris does not persist, it only has one chance to impact the structure. Whereas the collapse period of space elevators is expected to be of the order of years, damage or collapse of loops in this way is expected to be rare. In addition, launch loops themselves are not a significant source of space debris, even in an accident. All debris generated has a perigee that intersects the atmosphere or is at escape velocity. Launch loops are intended for human transportation, to give a safe 3 g acceleration which the vast majority of people would be capable of tolerating well, and would be a much faster way of reaching space than space elevators. Launch loops would be quiet in operation, and would not cause any sound pollution, unlike rockets. Finally, their low payload costs are compatible with large-scale commercial and even. Difficulties of launch loops A running loop would have an extremely large amount of energy in its linear momentum. While the magnetic suspension system would be highly redundant, with failures of small sections having essentially no effect, if a major failure did occur the energy in the loop 1. While this is a large amount of energy, it is unlikely that this would destroy very much of the structure due to its very large size, and because most of the energy would be deliberately dumped at preselected places when the failure is detected. Steps might need to be taken to lower the cable down from 80 km altitude with minimal damage, such as parachutes. Therefore, for safety and reasons, launch loops are intended to be installed over an ocean near the equator, well away from habitation. The published design of a launch loop requires electronic control of the magnetic levitation to minimise power dissipation and to stabilise the otherwise under-damped cable. The two main points of instability are the turnaround sections and the cable. The turnaround sections are potentially unstable, since movement of the rotor away from the magnets gives reduced magnetic attraction, whereas movements closer gives increased attraction. In either case, instability occurs. This problem is routinely solved with existing servo control systems that vary the strength of the magnets. Although servo reliability is a potential issue, at the high speed of the rotor, very many consecutive sections would need to fail for the rotor containment to be lost. The cable sections also share this potential issue, although the forces are much lower. Lofstrom believes that this instability also can be controlled in real time by servo mechanisms, although this has never been attempted. Competing and similar designs In works by it is suggested that Lofstrom's project has many non-solved problems and that it is very far from a current technology. For example, the Lofstrom project has expansion joints between 1. In 2008, Bolonkin proposed a simple rotated close-loop cable to launch the space apparatus in a way suitable for current technology. Another project, the , is a smaller design by that is intended for launch assist for conventional rockets and suborbital tourism. The space cable design uses discrete bolts rather than a continuous rotor, as with the launch loop architecture. John Knapman has also mathematically shown that the meander instability can be tamed. The is another launch system concept. Skyhook could be either rotating or non-rotating. The non-rotating skyhook hangs from a down to just above the Earth's atmosphere skyhook cable is not attached to Earth. The rotating skyhook changes this design to decrease the speed of the lower end; the entire cable rotates around its center of gravity. The advantage of this is an even greater velocity reduction for the launch vehicle flying to the bottom end of the rotating skyhook which makes for an even larger payload and a lower launch cost. The two disadvantages of this are: the greatly reduced time available for the arriving launch vehicle to hook up at the lower end of the rotating skyhook approximately 3 to 5 seconds , and the lack of choice regarding the destination orbit. Bolonkin at the World Space Congress — 2002, 10—12 October, Houston, TX, USA.

Halfway thru the body of the article I began to get a glimmer of what it is talking about but I'm not sure my interpretation is right so someone who is familiar with it might take another shot at an intro paragraph. You can use caballeros to execute a MATLAB ® script or other MATLAB commands. The new Apple Watch Nike+ devices come with all the features new to the Series 4 models, including a larger screen, thinner body, a currently U. The advantage of this is an even greater velocity idea for the launch vehicle flying to the bottom end of launch loop model rotating skyhook which makes for an even larger payload and a lower launch cost. Since our Simulink model is already linear, our choice of operating point will have no effect and we can leave it as the between Model Initial Condition. You can find a bibliography at the bottom of. If you can locate enough money to keep a number of researchers busy for months or years, lets talk.

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