1. A surface Mass Driver hands off passenger pods to a rotovator.
Mass Drivers can also throw directly into orbit, but without an atmosphere in the way a rotovator or vertical skyhook can reach down directly to a surface track.
1. A surface Mass Driver hands off passenger pods to a rotovator.
Mass Drivers can also throw directly into orbit, but without an atmosphere in the way a rotovator or vertical skyhook can reach down directly to a surface track.
2. The rotovator releases the passenger pods, which will be redirected by other rotovators or rocket tugs
3. Intermodal habitat pods in deep-space configuration, either tethered together for spingrav, or linked directly for passengers in hibernation (https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/humanfactor.php#id--Suspended_Animation--Space_Torpor) with only the end hab of the tumbling stack hosting waking crew to monitor the sleepers.