TELECOMSAT GAIA TWO

GAIA TWO IS THE NATURAL PATH TO SPACE...
SELF LAUNCHING...SELF SUSTAINING...RECOVERABLE...RECYCLEABLE

A twenty foot, Telecommunications Satellite version of this vehicle can be launched via the FALL INTO SPACE method.

Gaia Two is lifted by balloon to 150,000', and dropped.

Onboard gyros and moveable ballast will position the vehicle to drop bow forward, vertical stabilizer up, with the nose slightly above the horizon.

Gaia Two reaches terminal velocity, slicing downward to 80,000'.

Her hull is pulsing with energy, as the bow begins to rise.

The gyros are humming.

Ballast is at maximun tension point, holding the vehicle in Kinetic Stasis atop the rapidly building Thrust Cushion.

Just as Gaia Two begins to 'skip off' the ever denser atmosphere, a powerful rush of highly compressed air blasts from her tail nozzle.

Sustained thrust propels Gaia Two on a tangent away from Earth's center until she has reached Near Earth Orbit.

She will have fallen into space.

While in service, TelecomSat Gaia Two is solar powered...her curved surfaces are ideal for solar collection via photovoltaic mesh, while offering multiple Telecom targets in a surface array...cameras atop the vertical stabilizer will broadcast UNIVERSE RISING back to Earth 24/7

When time for upgrades comes along, TelecomSat Gaia Two simply re-orients and fires the compressed air for the trip home.

This time, as atmospheric pressures come into play, Gaia Two performs a series of skip-off maneuvers without firing the air.

She will rise, cool, stall, and drop again until conditions are right for traditional aerodynamics to come into play.

From there, it's a long swoop to the water, where the vehicle slices to a stop and floats upright.

NOTE RE CONSTRUCTION...Gaia Two as TelecomSat will be popped from a two part mold... all the onboard components are pre-positoned within the molded hull....her curvilinear form provides surface area for numerous foci...think Many Telecoms In One.

PURPOSE...that's simple...we've littered Space before we even got there...Gaia Two will clean things up...less space junk...plus, the vehicle is BioFriendly...she dovetails nicely with the New Paradigm, and immediately fulfills the ol' Economic Imperative aspect...the need exists, and it's doable right now.

NOTIONAL SPIRALEVOLUTION...is a term being used in recent space developments...the popular meaning is evolving in real time...right now, it means taking a notion to spiral in, through all the confusion and debris, until the target/goal has been realized...any mention of spiralling in has always been a bad thing in AeroSpace...now it's the hot buzzword...things are changing rapidly in this realm...Gaia Two is an exponential leap forward...the debris field is behind us...target in sight...let's take a Notional SpiralEvolution to clean up the mess.

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