Transnet Global Network

SkyWay technology is a complex of synergistic engineering solutions. It represents something fundamentally new, although the majority of its components have been known for quite some time.

At the heart of SkyWay string transport is a relatively simple idea, one which has been fruitfully implemented in multiple areas of industrial and civil engineering – structural prestressing.

This solution has found an original application in SkyWay technology, opening up tremendous development opportunities for the transportation industry by enabling significantly increased passenger and cargo transport speeds.

Increased speed of traffic, coupled with low construction costs, cross-compatible systems,, and a variety of applications, allow SkyWay transport complexes to upscale into an integrated global network – Transnet.

From a technical and economic point of view, it is both feasible and desirable for the Transnet network to absorb and complement the internet’s ground-level infrastructure, taking on information and energy transmission functions. Transnet would thus act as a universal communication network capable of providing an unprecedented level of socio-economic consolidation.

Given its potential for infrastructure integration, Transnet can develop into transport and information network, providing a digitized transit corridor for any given passenger or product. A fully developed network would allow routing to be optimized in terms of time, distance, energy consumption, and other factors.

Combined with automated network controls, Transnet will enable “instant translocation,” meaning that traversing physical distance will no longer require any particular individual effort. Time in transit will be spent doing whatever the individuals would have been doing otherwise. Thus, translocation will be effectively instantaneous, ie cost-free in terms of time devoted to transit-related activities.

Interest in the idea of introducing string transport in various regions is developing. Among the possibilities that need to be explored is the way the network of string roads would be upscaled, the mechanisms for introducing it to new regions, and the applications of transnational networks.

In its initial stages of development, SkyWay infrastructure will be deployed primarily in areas where it is needed most. String transport network development will begin gradually, with the creation of short-distance lines where string transport is the most efficient solution.

The development of string transport begins with local cargo and urban routes: manufacturing plants, railway yards, mining sites; ports, airports connections, passenger lines over intra-city bodies of water, etc.

Constructing and commissioning string transport as a bundle of purpose-built lines can be seen as extending conveyor lines beyond mining and manufacturing enterprises.

These solutions can significantly reduce transportation costs, leading to increased margins. Expanding SkyWay transport networks will increase this effect exponentially. This will result in organic growth and consistent integration of the system in a network configuration, similar to what took place with the internet. Once adoption reaches a certain critical point, network growth will be unable to stall out or be stopped by legacy transportation interests.

Thanks to its technical features and operational specifics, Yunitski’s string transport will be the first transport system that can turn a profit without ever requiring subsidies.

The possibility of building a unified high-speed global transport network with unlimited expansion potential is one of the most significant benefits of SkyWay technology.

SpaceWay General Planetary Vehicle

The cargo-and-passenger version of the General Planetary Vehicle (GPV) described by Anatoly Yunitski in popular science articles as far back as in 1982 is arranged as follows. Imagine a special tube — the GPV bearing body frame — with a diameter of about two meters installed on the overpass and extending in both directions beyond the horizon and, thus, seizing the planet in a plane parallel to the plane of the equator. Two linear rotors, also seizing the planet, are installed inside the tubular body frame. The rotors are located in vacuum channels and have magnetic suspension systems and linear electric motors.

At the first stage of space entry, a magnetic suspension system is activated stabilizing the rotors in the centers of vacuum channels. Then one of the rotors is driven by a linear electric motor in motion along the channel, and, accordingly, around the Earth. The mass of the rotor is considerable, millions of tons, therefore many days will pass before it reaches the first cosmic speed and, by balancing the Earth’s gravity force with the centrifugal force, will attain zero gravity.

When the speed reaches more than 10 kilometers per second, the centrifugal forces will exceed the GPV weight. Under the action of centrifugal forces exceeding the Earth’s gravity force, the self-carrying ring of planetary dimensions is detached from the Earth’s surface and, evenly stretching (it will be 1.57% for every 100 km of the rise,) leaves the planet’s atmosphere within a few dozens of minutes and completely enters the circular orbit in the equator plane. While braking the first flywheel accelerated to cosmic speeds, the generated electric power is switched over to accelerating the second flywheel in the opposite direction. Having received a double impulse, the GPV body frame, seizing the planet, starts to rotate around it, until it develops the first space velocity in a few hours. The space cargo on the external suspension (passengers in comfortable cabins and a variety of goods in special containers) will be brought out in this way to circular orbits at an altitude of 300—400 km.

After the GPV starts operation, the industrialization of outer space will begin. The need for geospatial haulage will increase dramatically. This need will be satisfied by increasing the frequency of launches — after all, for one voyage, about 10 million tons of cargo and 10 million passengers will be delivered into space, environmentally friendly, without any impact on the environment, at the cost of less than USD 1,000 per ton, that is with a 10,000-fold decrease in the cost of delivering goods into orbit compared to today’s costs.

As for the resources that are available at the disposal of mankind, GPV can be built already today: the cost together with infrastructure is USD 2.2 trillion (three annual US military budgets), the capacity to switch to the power grid is 100 million kilowatts (2% of the rated capacity of the world’s power plants), the weight of metal structures is 40 million tons (so much steel is produced on the planet for a couple of weeks).

SkyWorld program

The SkyWorld program is a system of ready-made integrated solutions created by Anatoly Yunitski’s engineering school. It includes a number of unique developments in the field of high-speed cargo and passenger transportation, agro- and biotechnologies, as well as near-earth space exploration.

Implementing projects from the SkyWorld program will counteract much of the environmental destruction currently taking place around the world, while reaping cost efficiencies due to integrated infrastructure, rational land use, and economies of scale. In addition to ameliorating environmental damage, the SkyWorld program will open up new opportunities in integration of high technology, transport, energy infrastructure, industry, and the space sector.