RttS: Skyhook Animation
Added 2021-10-31 20:10:27 +0000 UTCThis is how the skyhook and launch loop work in tandem to slow down incoming payloads and accelerate outgoing payloads to higher orbit. Not completely to scale. The launch loop is a couple kilometers high.
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I know the placement of drop-off/pick-up is important physics-wise and that youβre showing different objects being moved, but every time I watch this gif I imagine the skyhook dropping something off at one end and then coming back, snatching it up, and flinging it again before it can get out of the launch zone π
pinglederry
2021-11-01 16:40:39 +0000 UTCIβve loved the concept of skyhooks since I read about them in βSevenevesβ - thank you for this fantastic visualization! Iβm looking forward to seeing more of this tech in action in RttS! <3
Jackalgirl
2021-11-01 13:22:34 +0000 UTCβ€οΈ
Simone Spinozzi
2021-10-31 20:59:38 +0000 UTCYEET!
Lorax177
2021-10-31 20:16:04 +0000 UTC
