SPACE TRANSPORT: Spacecraft : AVATAR
The 'Aerobic Vehicle for hypersonic Aerospace TrAnpoRtation' (AVATAR) is a hyperplane concept from India. It is planned to be the size of a MiG-25 fighter and would be capable of delivering a 500 kg to 1000 kg payload to low earth orbit at a rather petty rate of $67 per kg assuming an airframe life of 100 launches.
Weighing only 25 tonnes - 60 per cent of which is liquid hydrogen fuel - Avatar is said to be capable of entering into a 100-km orbit in a single stage and launching satellites weighing up to one tonne.
It is also said that the AVATAR will make space solar power (SSP) stations affordable providing a global solution for the coming energy crisis. The idea being that a string of satellites in space will convert sunlight into microwaves and beam to earth where it will be turned into electricity. Till now SSP stations were unthinkable because of high cost of space launches but Avatar can change that, Indian scientists hope
i had the same idea a few years back
but thinking about it
wouldn't it cause a raise in heat energy on the planet
although
if y ou were to build a sky scrapper with the co2 scrubbing teck
then in between each level you were to place -- turby -- (google search)
then you would more then likely be producing more owere then the consumption
and you would be decreasing green house gasses
now with the microwave thing
would it heat the atmoshere ?
but then if so
it would be exteremely useful on mars
if we had that and the ability to form a magnetic field
on mars
then we'd be in buisness
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