ROMBUS: Reusable Orbital Module - Booster & Utility Shuttle (1963)

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ROMBUS: Reusable Orbital Module - Booster & Utility Shuttle (1963)

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Link only,

https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com ... oster.html
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Re: ROMBUS: Reusable Orbital Module - Booster & Utility Shuttle (1963)

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I want the future I got promised, with vacations in Luna City and a Beanstalk to geosynchronous orbit and Martian settlements and a Wild West asteroid belt and flying cars and blackjack and hookers...
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Re: ROMBUS: Reusable Orbital Module - Booster & Utility Shuttle (1963)

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Beanstalk or satellites. You choose.
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Re: ROMBUS: Reusable Orbital Module - Booster & Utility Shuttle (1963)

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IIRC, there are ways to magnetically 'sway' a beanstalk out of the path of a space-station or three, but the increasing surfeit of Starlinks, GPS and junk prohibits...
If you cannot see the wood for the trees, deploy LIDAR.
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