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| Moment giant 'slingshot' hurls payloads 25,000 feet above Earth's surface: Colossal accelerator with an arm that spins 5,000 miles per hour is set to launch satellites into orbit by 2026 |
| 2022-10-07 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #10 Want height and speed before firing the rocket engines? Use an airplane mothership. Pegasus That way you won't have to design the rocket and payload like an artillery shell. |
| Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 2022-10-07 18:10 |
| #9 and we can use it to take out keep castle or great walls sally forth morons! |
| Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 2022-10-07 17:09 |
| #8 😁 for #3 |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-10-07 15:51 |
| #7 It's feasible. But the math and engineering are very tricky. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2022-10-07 15:22 |
| #6 Just looked at various websites discussing SpinLaunch The SpinLaunch plan is to achieve a high suborbital position with the slingshot and then smaller rockets on the projectiles would carry them to orbit |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2022-10-07 14:25 |
| #5 25k' is good but still way, way short of orbital |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2022-10-07 10:35 |
| #4 Now I know what I want done with my urn of ashes. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-10-07 08:42 |
| #3 Scale it down and we have an illegal alien repatriator |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-10-07 07:19 |
| #2 Those future satellites better be prepped for way more mechanical stress than the current ones. Hurling a steel rod with fins isn't the same as hurling sensitive motors and electronics. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-10-07 06:53 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-10-07 06:42 |