Philip Swan

Bio

Latest Concepts

• A fully and rapidly reusable, two-stage, methalox-fueled heavy-lift launch system to LEO • 9/8/2025, 9:38:53 PM
• Variable Pitch Screw Launcher (from Earth to Mars) • 9/8/2025, 8:43:17 PM

Latest Claims

• The system inherently produces low electromagnetic emissions, avoiding interference or payload damage • 3/23/2026, 11:35:19 PM
• A test claim(Draft) • 2/14/2026, 3:50:30 AM
• Earlier electromagnetic launcher designs showed steep, often near-cubic power-electronics cost scaling with exit velocity • 1/16/2026, 4:48:25 AM
• Compared to conventional coastal spaceports, the system offers greater long-term resilience to the risk of sea-level rise. • 12/25/2025, 4:04:12 AM
• The system significantly lowers land-use and externality costs compared to conventional rocket-based launch. • 12/25/2025, 3:21:55 AM
• The project puts U.S. companies in declining sectors back to work, keeps their people employed, and rebuilds industries we want to bring home • 12/15/2025, 8:21:29 AM
• The technology to engineer sufficiently reliable environmental control and life support systems (ECLS) exists(Draft) • 12/13/2025, 4:11:26 AM
• There is enough value associated with establishing a human presence on Mars to justify funding the effort(Draft) • 12/13/2025, 1:37:07 AM
• It is possible to engineer a crew-rated spacecraft that, upon arrival at Mars, is capable of entry, descent, and landing(Draft) • 12/13/2025, 1:35:17 AM
• Physiological effects of microgravity during the trip, and low gravity on the Martian surface, can be adequately mitigated(Draft) • 12/13/2025, 1:32:30 AM

Latest Reviews

• supporton this claim • 3/21/2026, 12:47:41 AM
• supporton this claim • 9/8/2025, 5:55:14 AM