The Grand Tour!

[Horus Lupercal]

Ha, thanks Altair. Yeah, we should work on a Solar Dyson sphere, but not in Low Solar Orbit, but in a 1000 km x 1000 km orbit!

Sounds easy enough.

I've just ran the numbers and sufficient satellites spaced 6m apart to cover the entirety of 1000km Earth Orbit would require 1,377,064 satellites and a combined mass of 6,196,791 tons.

This would need a launch system weighing between 32,107,552 and 49,259,311 tons just to get into orbit. Then put into a resonance orbit so you can evenly distribute them over 1.3 million cycles (roughly 99.99km).

I think it's entirely do able.

 

[TtTOtW]

Sounds easy enough.

I've just ran the numbers and sufficient satellites spaced 6m apart to cover the entirety of 1000km Earth Orbit would require 1,377,064 satellites and a combined mass of 6,196,791 tons.

This would need a launch system weighing between 32,107,552 and 49,259,311 tons just to get into orbit. Then put into a resonance orbit so you can evenly distribute them over 1.3 million cycles (roughly 99.99km).

I think it's entirely do able.

I like the way you think.

 

[SFSAbhishek]

Sounds easy enough.

I've just ran the numbers and sufficient satellites spaced 6m apart to cover the entirety of 1000km Earth Orbit would require 1,377,064 satellites and a combined mass of 6,196,791 tons.

This would need a launch system weighing between 32,107,552 and 49,259,311 tons just to get into orbit. Then put into a resonance orbit so you can evenly distribute them over 1.3 million cycles (roughly 99.99km).

I think it's entirely do able.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

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Ha, i know this lag. The largest thing I've ever flown is 1/205th of the size of this project by mass. At rough guesses, I'd get 5 minutes per frame at launch.

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

Sounds easy enough.

I've just ran the numbers and sufficient satellites spaced 6m apart to cover the entirety of 1000km Earth Orbit would require 1,377,064 satellites and a combined mass of 6,196,791 tons.

This would need a launch system weighing between 32,107,552 and 49,259,311 tons just to get into orbit. Then put into a resonance orbit so you can evenly distribute them over 1.3 million cycles (roughly 99.99km).

I think it's entirely do able.

Entirely doable. All it needs is time and RAM.

 

[Thirdc14239]

Sheesh I didn't even know that was possible with out any one showing me

 

[James Brown]

Sheesh I didn't even know that was possible with out any one showing me

Ofc it's possible, you just don't have enough skill to do to

 

[Mars Pathfinder]

Ofc it's possible, you just don't have enough skill to do to

No skill needed, just patience and uh... Long lastin phone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯