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To: GenXPolymath

About the weight of a battery of titanium “rods from God”.
To be used on who knows who?


29 posted on 02/12/2024 3:48:11 AM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: GranTorino

I have always been a fan of the “rods from God” concept. Tungsten would make a better rod material even better would be depleted uranium but the air pollution after impact would preclude either from actual use.

The other choice is Space Force sent their soy plane to a very high energy orbit such as the GPS belt or higher into the GEO belt you would need huge delta V to get to either and back to reentry velocity. Falcon heavy upper stage can send 26,000lbs to GTO that’s more than double what the X37b masses at officially. The left is plenty for a high energy third stage to make the 1800mps burn to GSO and then 1800 more back down to a a highly elliptical GTO style orbit one more 500 mps or less burn at perigee puts the next orbital perigee inside the upper atmosphere your heatsheild does the rest of the reentry delta V. My bet is they sent their little spy bird to GSO to look at chicom or Russian comms birds.


35 posted on 02/12/2024 7:32:41 PM PST by GenXPolymath
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