Carriage for rocket launch system
OwnerHoward M. Chin, Kimberly A. Carrahainventors
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A carriage for use in a rocket launch system for cooperating with an electromotive cableway traction drives conveyed beneath a two axis pivot anchored to the earth, elevated into a co-axial transfer tube leading to three primary tether cables whose weight is offset by balloons. The carriage has traction drives which grip cables from which they derive power and rotate to drive the carriage from the low altitude to the high altitude. The traction drives rotate in the opposite direction as the carriage descends the cable following the launch of a rocket under gravitational force. The kinetic energy of the traction drive is converted to electrical energy which is fed back to the cables during descent of the carriage.
A carriage for transporting a rocket for use in a rocket launch system, the rocket launch system having a set of rocket transport lines extending between a low altitude and a high altitude, a set of electric power lines extending between a low altitude and a high altitude and lighter-than-air balloons connected to sets of rocket transport lines and the set of electric power lines for holding the rocket transport lines and electric power lines at respective altitudes extending between the low altitude and the high altitude, said carriage comprising:
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