`Horizon Mission': 2025 Space Command's Ultra-Energetic Lightcraft with Super-Pressure Airship Structure

Details `Horizon Mission': 2025 Space Command's Ultra-Energetic Lightcraft with Super-Pressure Airship Structure `Horizon Mission': 2025 Space Command's Ultra-Energetic Lightcraft with Super-Pressure Airship Structure

Apr 2005

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BEAMED ENERGY PROPULSION: Third International Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 766, pp

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The Horizon Mission Methodology (HMM) is applied in the design of a 20-m diameter hyper-energetic lightcraft capable of transporting 6-12 occupants around the planet or directly to low Earth orbit - without resorting to staging or refueling, in the usual sense. As conceived, the lenticular double-hull of this super-pressure, balloon-type craft is fabricated from microwave-transparent silicon carbide films of superior strength, inflated with 2-atm of helium. A perimeter toriodal tube, serving as the primary structural `backbone,' is pressurized to 25-atm. The remote beam-energized MHD propulsion system (with directed-energy airspike) is intimately integrated with the craft's tensile-type structure and is not distinguishable as an item separate from the vehicle, as in conventional spacecraft. The design assumption of liquid immersion G-suits, individualized escape pods, and (optional) partial liquid ventilation, imparts super-human levels of crew survivability, enabling accelerations of 25 to 50 Gs, or more. The vehicle dry mass is 1200-kg payload is 1200-kg (crew and escape pods) expendable coolant is 2400-kg of ultra-pure, deionized water for waste heat rejection from rectenna arrays, during orbital boosts.

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