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Description
27 related topics
Challenges
18 related topics
History
11 related topics
Economics and potential
4 related topics
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Overview
History
- Powell James R. Powell (physicist)
- Maglev Maglev (transport)
- Danby Gordon Danby
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Aerospace engineer
- Reentry
- Hypersonic
- John C. Mankins
- Kennedy Space Center
- NASA
- Murder board
Description
- Plasma window
- MHD Magnetohydrodynamics
- Low Earth orbit
- Earth's rotation
- Orbital velocity Orbital speed
- Atmospheric drag
- Drag coefficient
- Stagnation point
- SMES
- Linear synchronous motor Linear motor
- Kilowatt-hour
- Kinetic energy
- MJ Megajoule
- Linear electric motor
- Superconducting Super Collider
- Mass driver
- Megastructures Megastructure
- Gauss Gauss (unit)
- Tensile structure
- Niobium-titanium
- Rocket equation
- Safety factors Safety factor
- 1% of the current costs to orbit Rocket
- Non-rocket spacelaunch
- Momentum Exchange Tether
- HASTOL
- Highly exponential scaling Tether propulsion
Economics and potential
- Linear synchronous electric motor Linear synchronous motor
- Dry weight
- Space Shuttle
- Launch assist Rocket sled launch
Challenges
- Kilojoule
- Pulsed power
- Compulsator
- MHD generators MHD generator
- General Electric
- Flywheel Flywheel energy storage
- Capital cost
- Coilgun
- RLVs Reusable launch system
- Orders of magnitude Order of magnitude
- Ampère's force law
- Permeability Permeability (electromagnetism)
- Electric currents
- Properties of lightning Lightning
- Superconductor
- SMES Superconducting magnetic energy storage
- Apollo 16
- Active structure
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.StarTram
Nodes71
Edges70
Triples61
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028169
Components1
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StarTram
Top relations
related to history · 19
StarTram → Advanced Concept Studies, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Danby, Developed, Dr, George Maise, Gordon Danby, Inc, James, John, Later, Maglev, MagLifter, Mankins, NASA, NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Noting StarTram, Powell, ZHA
related to Generation 2 System · 9
StarTram → An, Antarctica, Gen-2, Powell's Maglev, Superconducting Super Collider, The, The Gen-2, Though NASA, With
related to Gen-2 · 8
StarTram → Ampère's, As, For, Gen-1, Gen-2, Here, The, To
related to Generation 1.5 System (lower-velocity option) · 8
StarTram → An, Dr, Fuel, Gen-1, Gen-2, However, Powell, Though
related to Economics and potential · 7
StarTram → Gen-1's, Generation, Maglifter, Space Shuttle, The, The StarTram, This
related to Gen-1.5 · 7
StarTram → Gen-1, Gen-2, However, Many, RLVs, The, The Gen-1
is a · 1
StarTram → proposed space launch system propelled by maglev technology
related to External links · 1
StarTram → Startram Homepage
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
per launch kilometres mi would tube 000 gen-1 cost system generation high power tunnel ft gen-2 maglev design current estimated
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StarTram | is a | proposed space launch system propelled by maglev technology | 0.90 | text |
| the | instance of | intended to have neither high performance relative to weight requirements nor | 0.80 | text |
| StarTram | related to Economics and potential | The StarTram | 0.60 | section |
| StarTram | related to Economics and potential | This | 0.60 | section |
| StarTram | related to Economics and potential | Space Shuttle | 0.60 | section |
| StarTram | related to Economics and potential | The | 0.60 | section |
| StarTram | related to Economics and potential | Generation | 0.60 | section |
| StarTram | related to Economics and potential | Gen-1's | 0.60 | section |
| StarTram | related to Economics and potential | Maglifter | 0.60 | section |
| StarTram | related to External links | Startram Homepage | 0.60 | section |
| StarTram | related to Gen-1.5 | The | 0.60 | section |
| StarTram | related to Gen-1.5 | The Gen-1 | 0.60 | section |
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