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

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 1:03 pm
by jemhouston

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

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 8:49 pm
by Poohbah
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...

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

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2025 7:16 am
by warshipadmin
Beanstalk or satellites. You choose.

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

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2025 11:39 am
by Nik_SpeakerToCats
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...