Offshore launching system

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F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons

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89/3, 114/58

F41F 3/04 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2000645

A jack-up type of offshore oil-drilling platform is adapted for rocket launching, wherein the rocket is assembled on a mobile launch pad in a protected on-shore facility then loaded onto the floating jack-up barge for transport to a launch site miles offshore. The barge is jacked up to create a stable, sea-bottom supported structure; a particular feature is the used of a moveable cantilever structure on which the rocket and its supporting pad are loaded while in the on-shore facility, then this structure is moved to a central location on the barge, the barge is floated, and the floating barge is towed to the launch site. At the launch site the structure is moved back to a cantilevered position for launch. In this manner the exhaust gasses from the rocket motors can be directed harmlessly into the sea.

Plate-forme auto-élévatrice de type utilisé pour le forage en mer adaptée pour le lancement de fusées; celle-ci est assemblée à son pas de tir mobile dans une installation terrestre avant son expédition sur la barge flottante auto-élévatrice vers le site de lancement situé à plusieurs milles au large. La barge est alors transformée en structure stable prenant appui sur le fond marin; une structure mobile en porte-à-faux reçoit la fusée montée sur son pas de tir; celle-ci est déplacée jusqu'à un emplacement situé au centre de la barge pour le remorquage jusqu'au site de lancement. Lorsque la barge parvient au site de lancement, la structure est mise en porte-à-faux, c'est-à-dire dans une position où, pour les rendre inoffensifs, les gaz d'échappement des moteurs de la fusée seront orientés vers la surface de la mer.

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