Philip Swan

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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 Elevated Evacuated Tube can be designed so that lift-fan power-loss will not endanger people or infrastructure below. • 5/12/2026, 7:23:20 PM
• No unobtanium - VPSL can be built from well-understood materials that are already commercially available • 5/5/2026, 7:31:03 PM
• A long tube equipped with a vacuum pumping system can be built to achieve the required vacuum level cost-effectively • 5/5/2026, 6:40:05 PM
• 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

Latest Reviews

• supporton this claim • 5/4/2026, 7:01:28 PM
• supporton this claim • 3/21/2026, 12:47:41 AM