We already have high speed space travel crafts ready to go, that's what the Pentagon was leaking. This achievement is why Trump instantiated the US Space Force. Elon Musk (and to a lesser extent, Richard Branson) is part of the first commercialization of such advanced technology, allowed by DoD, USAF, and Space Force.
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The spaceport resort is a huge step in the adoption of space travel and the acceptance that humanity is now a space-faring civilization!
I know that building a Mass driver to send raw materials to space would cost total $1.5 Trillion-$2.5 Trillion, but that is the overall life time cost. Should be able to build a 6-10 mile one for $150 Billion in a 8 year period with a dedicated power system and source(I prefer the Nuclear Thorium-MSR type, but any Reactor would do the trick since 1-2 GW power source with a 700 MW discharge capacity should get it to the ISS station level[safe side would be 2-4 Gw with 1.2 Gw discharge capacity]).
Vacuuming it, and using a plasma window is very doable right now under $400 Billion. If designed properly should last 30 years. If designed to send a 20 Kg payload every 2 minutes that is about 600 Kg/h(14,400 Kg/day) with an operational period of 4-5 days a week with the other 2 used as inspection days. 907 Kg is the near = to 1 ton so 14,400 Kg would be around 17.5-18 tons weekly. Take down several weeks of the year to do a full inspection and repairs/replacement schedule which could account to 2-3 months. So lets say 30 weeks of operation per year then that would equal to 525-540 tons yearly.
That is only for 1. With the amount suggested that could be upped to 3-4 times so yeah. It has nothing to do with money, engineering, or anything else other than politics.
We already have high speed space travel crafts ready to go, that's what the Pentagon was leaking. This achievement is why Trump instantiated the US Space Force. Elon Musk (and to a lesser extent, Richard Branson) is part of the first commercialization of such advanced technology, allowed by DoD, USAF, and Space Force.
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The spaceport resort is a huge step in the adoption of space travel and the acceptance that humanity is now a space-faring civilization!
yay!! (At least I wish this was true)
I know that building a Mass driver to send raw materials to space would cost total $1.5 Trillion-$2.5 Trillion, but that is the overall life time cost. Should be able to build a 6-10 mile one for $150 Billion in a 8 year period with a dedicated power system and source(I prefer the Nuclear Thorium-MSR type, but any Reactor would do the trick since 1-2 GW power source with a 700 MW discharge capacity should get it to the ISS station level[safe side would be 2-4 Gw with 1.2 Gw discharge capacity]).
Vacuuming it, and using a plasma window is very doable right now under $400 Billion. If designed properly should last 30 years. If designed to send a 20 Kg payload every 2 minutes that is about 600 Kg/h(14,400 Kg/day) with an operational period of 4-5 days a week with the other 2 used as inspection days. 907 Kg is the near = to 1 ton so 14,400 Kg would be around 17.5-18 tons weekly. Take down several weeks of the year to do a full inspection and repairs/replacement schedule which could account to 2-3 months. So lets say 30 weeks of operation per year then that would equal to 525-540 tons yearly.
That is only for 1. With the amount suggested that could be upped to 3-4 times so yeah. It has nothing to do with money, engineering, or anything else other than politics.