Neues privates ‚Arc‘ -Raumschiff zielt darauf ab, in weniger als einer Stunde Fracht von der Umlaufbahn nach überall auf der Erde zu liefern (Video)
https://www.space.com/technology/new-private-arc-spacecraft-aims-to-deliver-cargo-from-orbit-to-anywhere-on-earth-in-less-than-an-hour-video
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Submission statement (from article):
>A new private spacecraft aims to help the U.S. military get key supplies where they’re needed, and fast.
>On Wednesday (Oct. 1), the California-based company Inversion unveiled Arc, a vehicle designed to serve as an orbital storehouse and superfast delivery system for mission-critical gear, getting it anywhere on Earth in less than an hour.
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I’m sure the only customers who’ll be able to justify the cost will be the military.
LOL. I see two problems here:
1. Demand side. Who would be willing to pay such a high price for equipment to be delivered in one hour, anywhere on Earth, that can’t be delivered in a few hours at a much much smaller cost? It is hard to imagine what kind of cargo can’t be obtained fast from somewhere nearby, and that would justify such costs. Some people mentioned the military. Maybe, usually militaries would plan ahead instead of relying on something like this…
2. Supply side: If you have a loaded rocket ready to go, you could technically reach anywhere on earth in 60 to 90 minutes. But the real problem comes when you have to maintain a fueled and ready to go rocket 24/7 in the off chance someone needs it, and have the cargo on hand. Because otherwise, fueling a rocket, and getting that mission critical cargo to the rocket takes time.
So they have to keep an expensive rocket fueled and ready to go 24/7 (something we can’t easily do and don’t do because fuels and such are expensive to keep like that) and have a storage of possible mission critical cargo ready to go.
If this cargo is so rare and precious, what are the chances it is cheap to store and available to be kept at the launch site? If you need to bring it there beforehand, just in case, why not simply take it with you where you’d need it, just in case, at a fraction of the price.
What kind of cargo would be so important to require one hour delivery on the other side of the planet? Furthermore, the cargo would have to be so critical, as to avoid enemy detection or interception. Which country or theater of war would meet such requirements? Also consider the cost of launching such a rocket at the last minute….probably into the tens of millions of dollars, they might even need a backup rocket in case the first one failed. The costs are now astronomical.
at what velocity?
rods from god kind of velocity?
because we can’t get are cheap plastic crap from amazon fast ENOUGH?
This is actually smart. Billionaires and the military could be the target market. Imagine orbital dropping your golddigger wive/husband a Picknick into the Swiss alps.