Okay, I have a business idea. What if I start a company that leases out space warehouses to deliver product for instant delivery. Say an Amazon warehouse in space as the tenant to my building. Whenever someone buys the product, say a MacBook in this case, the product is packaged inside a special cases and is launched directly at their address for instant delivery. To avoid the product getting vaporized, the casing would be ceramic and would deploy a mini chute to land right in the customers drop zone.
Have Elon Musk post this on twitter, his followers will jump at the opportunity to invest $10b
Adrian Garcia
It's retarded. OP
electronics wouldnt survive the temperature extremes cold and hot
Zachary Cooper
the economics of earth to space to earth delivery is just dumb. so wasteful, unless you had a space elevator. if the elevator was located somewhere convenient to where your products are made and then shuffled up the elevator to orbit to the warehouses...
the warehouses could be cheap inflatable jobs lifted by elevator. just a basic structure. with the drop pods and the loading robots. and the docking section for resupply. maybe space tugs to carry supplies from the elevator to your warehouses, human crewed with a repair guy who can also checkup on the warehouses and drop pod condition while resupplying. maybe space drones for smaller resupply runs at slower speeds.
and then when the delivery is made, it is loaded into a drop pod at the nearest warehouse. or maybe you just have the one warehouse, to start.
actually there should be another drone, just in space, that carries the drop pod to its drop location. the warehouse loads a drop pod and the drop pod or pods gets loaded on to the space delivery drone. the space delivery drone is designed to fly over the target while still in space and then drop the pod to do the rest. then the space delivery drone flies back to refuel and deliver more pods.
the pod has simple solid rockets for re-entry. the entire thing is disposable and mass produced but designed to survive re-entry. after rentry the pod bursts off on explosive bolts. revealing another pod inside. this smaller pod then opens and out comes the re-entry drone with wings to glide down to the target, and maybe ram jets.
its still fucking stupid though
Grayson Robinson
>space warehouses You're thinking like 30 years ahead, minimum
Matthew White
maybe if your space delivery ship and re-entry rockets on the pod are accurate enough you can skip the ramjet winged drone exploding out of the ceramic egg thing and just use a parachute. maybe even re-use the entire pod, at the customers expense, and then he can get his pod deposit money back. he can just throw the pod on the back of a truck and drive it back or call you and you can send a truck to bring the pod somewhere where you can ship it back to the space elevator.
Juan Bailey
more like 100b in funding retard
Nathan Wood
make the entire drop pod reusable and a rentry drone. with strap on disposable solid rocket rentry boosters that burn up in atmosphere. the drop pod glides to the target and it also has engines for in air flight. when it gets close to the customer the re-entry drone drops the package which is carried by a quadcopter directly to any customers doorstep. the quadcopter and re-entry drone fly off to the nearest airports or landing areas where they are collected, refurbished, and shipped back to the space elevator.
this way the customer doesnt need a giant drop zone.
Ayden Taylor
Something goes wrong with the drop pod control mechanism, BOOM, a village destroyed 'cause some faggot ordered a washer from Amazuun
Learn about orbital mechanics and you'll realize why this won't work. Unless all your customers live at the equator, they'll have to wait several days until the orbital phases are right.
Why do you think launches to the ISS have to happen at an exact second or not at all? And then it takes several days to actually get there? The opposite direction is the same way.
Isaac Scott
Why not just have a drone pick up from a warehouse? It would be so much cheaper. Amazon already has warehouses near all major areas of delivery.
Christopher Thompson
there is really no point at which this business becomes feasible op. i've considered it from every angle and it just doesnt make sense. the cost and difficulty just outweighs waiting a little longer to get a package. if a space elevator exists, and assuming it doesnt then it costs even more to get the package into space.
well maybe for made in space products it could make sense, for fast delivery, especially if theres no space elevator. exports from mars to earth. or earth to mars. have warehouses at mars and earth and delivery ships moving between them.
and as for my quadcopter popping out the re-emtry drone idea, it should be multiple quads with multiple packages to various local addresses. the re-entry drone lands at a nearby airport, either one you have set up, or a local airport if they are equipped for drones in the future.
the quadcopters after delivering the package will fly to the nearest recharge station. and these will be cheap tiny perches you set up across cities and delivery locations for your quads to land and recharge before flying to the place where you collect the quads to ship them back to the launch site.
the re-entry pod refuels at the airport or wherever and then flies itself between airports to the nearest spaceport to be relaunched.
Nolan Fisher
i agree, its completely pointless to do earth to space to earth deliveries.
the only customer i could see for it would be the military. if you could drop supplies on to anywhere on the earth from space.
Jason Barnes
>drop supplies interesting way to spell weapons
Charles Stewart
they will have dropping missiles and bombs covered. i was thinking supplies but also munitions. maybe a space pod can be dropped too fast to scramble jets to intercept unlike a resupply from the air. make it nearly impossible to cut off a base from food and ammo supplies.
Nicholas Cox
probably won't be a profitable business since space isn't real
Robert Turner
actually yeah, weapons too. ithe rentry pod could drop a missile or a few.
Aaron Carter
>if you could drop supplies on to anywhere on the earth from space
The military has been working on stuff like this, but the reality is the world wide trouble spots are pretty well known and we already have US military bases near by and carriers that patrol there. So we already have the force projection we need.
Cooper Hernandez
>maybe a space pod can be dropped too fast Only if it's not already on their radar in orbit, otherwise it would have to enter a lower orbit to get the phase right and from this braking they can predict when it'll reenter. Because then you only have a choice between controlled reentry in a small area or uncontrolled reentry in a large area.
