A launch loop, or Lofstrom loop, is a proposed system for launching objects into orbit using a moving cable-like system situated inside a sheath attached...

surface and lift the ring into space. A launch loop or Lofstrom loop is a design for a belt-based maglev orbital launch system that would be around 2000 km...

inclined loop, also known as an oblique loop, is a 360° loop that has been tilted at an angle. It is not entered vertically, like a vertical loop, or horizontally...

installations of Shuttle Loop. These rides are often not very tall, and usually achieve speeds of 60 mph (96 km/h). Flywheel launches are used on some Anton...

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A Launched Loop is a type of steel launched shuttle roller coaster manufactured by Arrow Dynamics. With 8 different installations, 7 of them being relocated...

Interplanetary Society, Vol. 36, 1982, 231. (pdf). PDF version of Lofstrom's 1985 launch loop publication (AIAA 1985) Archived September 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine...

2025-05-05. Retrieved 2025-05-15. Novet, Jordan (2021-11-02). "Microsoft launches Loop, an Office app for helping workers stay on top of projects". CNBC. Retrieved...

ways and are thus able to circumvent some of these limitations. The launch loop is a partial ring, perhaps 2000 km long, that runs between two ground...

Shuttle Loop is a type of steel launched shuttle roller coaster designed by Reinhold Spieldiener of Intamin and manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf. A total...

Air launching is the practice of releasing a rocket, missile, parasite aircraft or other aircraft payload from a mother ship or launch aircraft. The payload...

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kilogram ($100 per pound), similar to the $5–$300/kg estimates of the Launch loop, but higher than the $310/ton to 500 km orbit quoted to Dr. Jerry Pournelle...

contact with the surface of the Earth. A skyhook would require a suborbital launch vehicle to reach its lower end, while a space elevator would not. Different...

traveling at 509 km/h (316 mph; 141 m/s). For single loop railguns, these mission requirements require launch currents of a few million amperes, so a typical...

the proposed megastructures, only the orbital elevator, the Lofstrom launch loop, and Martian or lunar space elevator concepts could be built using conventional...

rocket sled launch, also known as ground-based launch assist, catapult launch assist, and sky-ramp launch, is a proposed method for launching space vehicles...

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incorporated into the projectiles. With multi-stage rocket projectiles the launch cost was estimated at US$500 per kilogram in 2004.[citation needed] Ram...

reused, recycled, or both. In May of the same year, Szaky launched the first trial of Loop in Paris, France. Carrefour, a French multinational retailer...

acceleration in a railgun is at right angles to the central axis of the current loop formed by the conducting rails. In addition, railguns usually require the...

rings, it does not need a 40,000-kilometre (25,000 mi) long structure. Launch loop Mass driver Megascale engineering Non-rocket spacelaunch Orbital ring...

at high speeds from the ground. A launch loop (or Lofstrom loop) is a dynamically supported 2000 km long iron loop that projects up in an arc to 80 km...

The generic roller coaster vertical loop, also known as a Loop-the-loop, or a Loop-de-loop, where a section of track causes the riders to complete a 360...

StarTram, etc.) air launch or aircraft tow aerial refueling Lofstrom launch loop/space fountains And on-orbit resources such as:[citation needed] Space...

needed] Based on the launch mechanism for aircraft carriers, the flywheel-launched shuttle loop is a successor of the drop-tower launch shuttle, and predates...

known in the space advocacy community for a ground-based space launcher design, the Launch Loop, for which he has been credited by name in several works of...

local news programming). That same day, KFMB-DT2 began to air a pre-launch loop for the new affiliation with the network on its former MeTV space along...

propulsion system. Off-board laser propulsion, which includes laser-powered launches and laser light sails, eliminates the need for the spacecraft to carry...

currently known. Other proposed ideas include ground accelerators such as launch loops, rocket-assisted aircraft/spaceplanes such as Reaction Engines Skylon...