What would it take to put a satellite dish the size of a football field into orbit?The weight,the volume of undeployed dish on the rocket,$$?
What's the largest such device already there,,,, what did IT need?
What's the largest such device already there,,,, what did IT need?
gabe
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Hello, and thank you for allowing me to help you today. An object of this size would probably need to be transported to space in stages, similar to the International Space Station currently orbiting Earth. The most likely launch vehicle needed would be a heavy lift launch vehicle (HLV), which is capable of lifting 44,000 to 110,000 pounds. Hopefully this helps give you a ballpark range of what is needed. Presumably, a small fleet of such
Gabe
An object of this size would probably need to be transported to space in stages, similar to the International Space Station currently orbiting Earth. The most likely launch vehicle needed would be a heavy lift launch vehicle (HLV), which is capable of lifting 44,000 to 110,000 pounds. Hopefully this helps give you a ballpark range of what is needed.
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Are you really asking the Yahoo Answers comminity such a complicated question? That would probably take a team of NASA scientists the better part of ten years to answer that.