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Project Orion
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November 12, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Will it take off?
November 16, 2009 at 10:25 am
Why would they name it after that song from Oklahoma?
November 20, 2009 at 2:46 am
It would have to be built in orbit; and it would probably leave orbit under conventional thrusters. Only once it was a safe distance from the planet would it light off the first nuke.
November 20, 2009 at 7:27 am
sounds doable
November 20, 2009 at 9:34 am
What a spectacular waste of money.
November 20, 2009 at 10:46 am
@origuy
Launching with conventional thrusters would defeat the point. The idea was to actually uses nuclear impulse to launch.
November 20, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Bang bang
November 20, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Read George Dyson’s (Freeman’s son) book ‘Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957 – 1965′ for a fascinating overview of the entire project.
The 10,000 ton version would have done a 3 year round trip to one of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus, delivering a 1,300 ton payload and originally planned to happen in 1970. The ‘Advanced Interplanetary Ship’, as it would be called, would have 4G acceleration using 15 kiloton ‘propulsion modules’