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China plans to build a giant rail gun to launch hypersonic planes into space (www.scmp.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't have to carry a huge amount of rocket fuel so I assume that the energy requirement would be less. But this is just a laymens guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Didn’t think of this, very good point. Sounds like it might allow for “better” payloads reaching space (supplies for building or food whatever) without needing to worry about huge fuselages.