Super-powerful slingshot would take rockets to the orbiter.

One start-up company tests an interesting method for launching satellites to the orbiter. That method is just to use the extremely powerful slingshot that accelerates the rocket to the orbiter. Without the need to use rocket engines. If that thing is successful. It would solve one of the biggest problems of rocketry. That thing is noise. 

If the use of rocket engines can replace by using the magnetic track or slingshot that thing would make spaceports more common than they are now. The slingshot or spin shot is the model that this company uses. There is a video of this system above this text. The system uses a centrifugal launcher. 

Another way would be to use the high-altitude airship. The original launching system cannot use because it's too heavy. But the High-altitude airship or HAA. Can take the small rocket to an altitude of 20-30 kilometers. And that thing makes it possible to launch the small rockets to higher altitudes than the ground-based system allows. 

If the system uses a long whip it can take the rocket higher. The whip is giving more launching energy to the small rocket. And then the computer-controlled hook would release the rocket. The whip would be at the side of the airship and then it would just throw the capsule to orbit. A small rocket or satellite can launch by using the whip. And then it can simply throw that rocket to a higher altitude.

 Or the whip can rotate a couple of times, and that thing would give power to the rocket. This kind of slingshot launcher can also interest military operators. They can use to shoot grenades to long distances. And if the system uses an open structure that thing can be very highly mobile. If those high-tech slingshots replace cannons.  That makes it possible to use all kinds of grenades in the same system. And no flame can uncover the position of the firing station. So this is one of the reasons why this kind of system is under development. 

https://futurism.com/startup-tests-rocket-launched-by-super-powerful-slingshot

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Helium balloons and small space launch vehicles can be the ultimate combination.

The "environment-friendly" or "wallet-friendly" space tourism by using helium balloons is one of the most interesting things in space exploration. The cost of that fun would be about 50 000 USD. Space tourism is accelerating the industrial and scientific use of space because the technologies are made for space tourism are suitable for people who have no astronaut training. And space tourism is a good method to bring investors for the industrial use of space. 

The idea is that the passengers would travel to the edge of space by using helium balloons where is the pressurized cabin. That kind of system would cost less money than the rocket and the views from the high atmosphere are impressive. But the helium balloons can also rise small rockets and space shuttles to the high atmosphere before their rocket stages start to operate. 

Image II Dream Chaser 

The miniature rockets and space shuttles like Pegasus rocket and Dream Chaser space plane can use in scientific missions. But those systems can also equip with small-size remote-control laboratories. In those miniaturized laboratories the operators can grow crystals. That is used in the resonance circuits of the radio transmitters. New chemical compounds that can be used in nanotechnology can produce in the microgravitational environment. 

But those small-size space systems can also interest the military and intelligence operators. The small-size rockets can carry miniaturized recon satellites to low-orbiter. And that kind of satellite can observe the WLAN networks on Earth. But they can also collect data from the communication between hostile recon satellites and earth stations. 

Image III: Pegasus

Also, the miniaturized recon satellites can observe other satellites by using CCD and gamma-ray cameras. Those systems can uncover recon and sleeping satellite bombers like FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardment System) which can use for surprise attacks. And satellite-based EMP bombs which purpose is to suppress the communication and combat support systems. Also, satellite-based EMP systems can use to destroy hostile military satellites in conflicts. 

The miniature satellites and space planes can also be used in combat missions. They might equip with rockets or DEW (Directed Energy Weapons). Those systems can destroy other satellites. 

And that thing is making them very capable. In the cases of conflicts. The killer satellites can destroy GPS, communication, and recon satellites. And that makes them an excellent tool for the military. The targets for killer satellites are the combat support systems that are used to control the combat drones and aim the GPS-guided weapons. The size of the killer satellite is not very big. And those systems are already in use or under development. 

https://www.sncorp.com/what-we-do/dream-chaser-space-vehicle/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_Pegasus

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Thinking about ethical problems of artificial intelligence

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"Thunder child" the beauty for civilians and military

"Thunder child"
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

"Safehaven marine" corporation's  “Thunder child” is the new era of business and military vessels, what are lightweight and very fast. This kind of vessels can be closed as air- and waterproof. This structure allows using that thing in the radioactive or chemical area. Vessels like “Thunder child” are not toys anymore, and they can be served in many situations, where the speed is important. If they are equipped with water-jet dive systems, those vessels might operate also in the shallow water. 

They might also have the diesel-electric system, what allows them to drive quietly. In this system, the user of the ship can change between batteries and diesel for the drive. And of course, the fuel cells can be used in this kind of vessel. Those fuel cells, what might be similar what is used in spacecraft would make the voiceless and it moves on the sea like a ghost. 

If that kind of vessel would be equipped with sophisticated autopilot, what has artificial intelligent based drive system, could this kind of vessel operate also independently. This is the very important point if the human pilot is unable to work because of an unconscious or another kind of situation. Vessels like the armed version of  “Thunder child” is also very capable to operate with special forces because the audience ever notices that vehicle as military equipment. 

If those vessels would be armed with anti-tank recoiless weapons like heavy bazookas, Hellfire and Stinger missiles, what can be launched from similar hatches, that is used in Ticonderoga-class cruisers and 30-40 mm. automatic cannons, what uses HEAT grenades, those vessels can be very dangerous. This weapon system bases the same technology as “ Zumwalt” (DDG-1000) class destroyers. This means that weapons can pull inside the vessels, and in this case, they don’t break the shape of STEALTH-hull. They can also lay mines from the hatches from the belly of the vessel. 

Sources

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/6811/fast-and-stealthy-thunder-child-is-a-wave-carving-thing-of-beauty

https://www.safehavenmarine.com/the-boat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw0ptHOr4h8

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