re: I supervised an Honours Thesis on this topic
I see, many thanks for your expertise. Human jelly is not the product we're looking for. :-)
But still (I want someone to say: this will work), we're not going to LEO, only to maximum 100km altitude. So wouldn't you only need much more limited velocities?
Or better: what if you use a combination of a maglauncher and an ordinary rocket engine? Just to give your space plane a head start. Would it make sense for suborbital launches?
