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Railguns also become much harder in a larger gravity well. Bigger planets generally have thicker atmospheres as well. Your payload will end up disintegrating at the velocities required even on Earth.


The Earth is larger than Venus, but its atmosphere is 90 times denser than ours.

There's a lot more variables that just gravity.


Balloon stage followed by a rail gun might work.


Vacuum inside the tube?




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