Reynard
Emperor Mongoose
Thought I'd have a section for anything concerning SSs since there can be a variety of topics about them.
"Low earth orbit is only slightly above the Earth, by outer space standards, 124 - 1240 miles (200 - 2000 km) in altitude. Below 124 miles, orbits rapidly degrade, causing surface impact, and above 1,240 miles or even less, the Earth's radiation belts damage electronic equipment, necessitating special shielding. The region from 1,243 miles altitude to geostationary orbit (35,786 kilometers or 22,236 mi) is known as Medium Earth Orbit. Low earth orbit, medium earth orbit, and geostationary orbit are known as LEO, MEO, and GSO respectively. By comparison, the Moon orbits the Earth at an altitude of approximately 384,399 km (238,854 mi), putting GSO at about 10% of the way to the Moon. LEO is only about 1% of the way to the Moon."
I thought this would be a good imagery for where stations are located with Earth conditions as a baseline UWP 777---. Gravity and atmosphere would adjust where LEO, MEO and GSO would be.
No flaming here. I looked over all the editions of Traveller I have concerning grav vehicles and the universally vague "reach orbit". Now that we have the supplement listing actual orbits of Orbital (low orbit), Geosynchronous (Medium orbit) and Geostationary this is important. MegaTraveller, Traveller: The New Era and T5 give interesting information by separating grav thrust into lifters, g-drives and maneuver drives which actually helps explain why vehicles can't break orbit. MT and TTNE were still vague about what orbit means but T5 actually shows lifters and g-drives can reach LEO and MEO orbits respectively. Let's combine the two for Mongoose simplicity making grav vehicles able to reach Geosynchronous orbit which is significant to determine which types can actually have non-maneuver drive traffic. This also corresponds to ships picking up and launching those air rafts and G-carriers.
I believe in other discussions we established vehicles can make short hops in space between spacecraft and that would now include stations. That's very significant! That means a station will have dedicated vehicles operating near the parent station in a variety of functions as well as grav assisted drones and robots in a manner reminiscent of those shuttles, haulers and maintenance units are airports. Looks like The Vehicle Book now works with Space Stations.
I picture travellers jumping out of the grav bus service running for their scheduled grav shuttle ready to intercept the geosynchronous station approaching the downstation flight window to catch a starliner out system.
"Low earth orbit is only slightly above the Earth, by outer space standards, 124 - 1240 miles (200 - 2000 km) in altitude. Below 124 miles, orbits rapidly degrade, causing surface impact, and above 1,240 miles or even less, the Earth's radiation belts damage electronic equipment, necessitating special shielding. The region from 1,243 miles altitude to geostationary orbit (35,786 kilometers or 22,236 mi) is known as Medium Earth Orbit. Low earth orbit, medium earth orbit, and geostationary orbit are known as LEO, MEO, and GSO respectively. By comparison, the Moon orbits the Earth at an altitude of approximately 384,399 km (238,854 mi), putting GSO at about 10% of the way to the Moon. LEO is only about 1% of the way to the Moon."
I thought this would be a good imagery for where stations are located with Earth conditions as a baseline UWP 777---. Gravity and atmosphere would adjust where LEO, MEO and GSO would be.
No flaming here. I looked over all the editions of Traveller I have concerning grav vehicles and the universally vague "reach orbit". Now that we have the supplement listing actual orbits of Orbital (low orbit), Geosynchronous (Medium orbit) and Geostationary this is important. MegaTraveller, Traveller: The New Era and T5 give interesting information by separating grav thrust into lifters, g-drives and maneuver drives which actually helps explain why vehicles can't break orbit. MT and TTNE were still vague about what orbit means but T5 actually shows lifters and g-drives can reach LEO and MEO orbits respectively. Let's combine the two for Mongoose simplicity making grav vehicles able to reach Geosynchronous orbit which is significant to determine which types can actually have non-maneuver drive traffic. This also corresponds to ships picking up and launching those air rafts and G-carriers.
I believe in other discussions we established vehicles can make short hops in space between spacecraft and that would now include stations. That's very significant! That means a station will have dedicated vehicles operating near the parent station in a variety of functions as well as grav assisted drones and robots in a manner reminiscent of those shuttles, haulers and maintenance units are airports. Looks like The Vehicle Book now works with Space Stations.
I picture travellers jumping out of the grav bus service running for their scheduled grav shuttle ready to intercept the geosynchronous station approaching the downstation flight window to catch a starliner out system.
