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• Electric acceleration
  ...too high the charges will "jam up" the engine causing reduced efficiency. Heavy gasses like Xenon and Krypton are a way to increase gas mass without increa ...ting on your hand in normal Earth gravity. That is obviously not enough to lift the spacecraft off the ground. In space you keep going at whatever speed yo
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• Single-stage to orbit
  ...and its maintenance. But this has a big disadvantage: the vehicle needs to lift its entire structure into space, a problem that multi-staged rockets don't ...fers from issues with storage (it is a low temperature cryogen), requiring heavy storage tanks. Compounding this problem is it's low density, meaning the ta
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• Space Terminology and Acronyms
  ; [[HLV]] : Heavy Lift Vehicle
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• Starchaser
  ...al man-rated suborbital vehicle using an expendable rocket design, a heavy lift suborbital rocket, and a viable microsatellite launcher.
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• The Fundamentals of space Travel
  ...ional space station. However, most of these vehicles are small or [[medium lift]] and do not deliver sufficient mass to LEO to be a practical vehicle to us ...that would allow a greater amount of mass to be delivered to LEO ([[Heavy Lift]]). The three approaches investigated where the [[shuttle derived]] vehicle
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