Rocket catcher,strange concept !

[hesham]

Hi,


http://blog.modernmechanix.com/page/4/?s=space+rocket

 

[Charlesferdinand]

I just came across this in a retrofuture group. Building something like this seems.... challenging.

 

[Foo Fighter]

Sometimes I just wonder what the designers of a particular system were on when they came up with the idea. What the Friday is that about and how could anyone think it would work?

 

[Grey Havoc]

Well, it would (in theory) allow for more available re-entry windows for manned spacecraft, for one thing.

 

[Charlesferdinand]

Well, it would (in theory) allow for more available re-entry windows for manned spacecraft, for one thing.

A system like this takes the term 're-entry window' very literally.

 

[martinbayer]

Yeah... no.

 

[Maiwand1880]

Remember that at the time many people in the West were convinced that the Soviet rocket that orbited DS aka Sputnik-1 had been launched horizontally from a railway sledge that ran on an ascending spiral track built around a moutain in Caucasus... so...

 

[Arjen]

Launching from a railway sledge - maybe. Landing on a railway sledge - daft, then and now.