Assuming you don’t want to exceed 10 gs, it takes 77ish seconds to accelerate to 7.6 km/s (the orbital velocity of the ISS). It would necessitate a nearly 300 km long railgun. Hypotheoretically it could work, though my gut instinct is that it would require fictionally strong materials to build
Assuming you don’t want to exceed 10 gs, it takes 77ish seconds to accelerate to 7.6 km/s (the orbital velocity of the ISS). It would necessitate a nearly 300 km long railgun. Hypotheoretically it could work, though my gut instinct is that it would require fictionally strong materials to build