Kimmo Huosionmaa
Recently I wrote about landing in the atmosphere of planet Neptune, and because today I'm writing about the futuristic things I want to tell you the plan, how to make that kind of mission possible. The idea of that solution was in some book, what I read a long time ago. In this book, the craft, what was filled with liquid was landed in the Neptune atmosphere by using rope, what was made by using some nanomaterial. In this kind of operations, what would be possible in the distant future, is a very important thing to use the fullerene tubes, what are connected together that way, that they are acting like a flexible rope. So those fullerene-bites must be connected in the form like the metal bites in the Indian rope-trick, where the jongleur would climb up the rope, what seems to stand without assistance or support from walls etc.
The idea was that the orbiting vehicle was heavier than the vehicle, what was landed in the atmosphere, and the heavier vehicle used a winch to lay smaller vehicle in its mission, and after that, this heavier vehicle would pull that futuristic bathyscaphe back to the orbiter. I sometimes thought that could this kind of system work in real life in the Earth orbiter? In this idea, the space station would orbit the Earth in the speed, what is similar to the small spacecraft. Then the space station would lay the rope down to the atmosphere, and the space-plane would be hooked that rope. Then the space station would pull the spacecraft to space.
The idea is similar to the space elevator, but the working application will be different. In this case, the space station would pull the spacecraft by using rope, what is made by using nanofibers, what is extremely light. If there would not be able to use nanofibers, what are tube-like fullerenes, the rope will be extremely heavy, and by using this day technology, that solution would not seem capable of operating. But maybe in future, this kind of solutions would take us to space.
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