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Startup Wants to Throw Satellites Int Orbit with a Giant Centrifuge
- dredmorbius 5y agoDiscussed 12 days ago, 218 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29198589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29198589
- dredmorbius 5y agoThis concept has been pretty thoroughly rubbished by Thunderf00t (video): Part 1: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9ziGI0i9VbE https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9ziGI0i9VbE Part 2: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ibSJ_yy96iE https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ibSJ_yy96iE TL;DW: - Vacuums are hard. - Rotation is hard. - Mach 7 is hard. - Lower-atmospheric thermal ablation is hard. - Promotional videos long on drama, simulation, confetti, and inspriring soundrack, short on actual data and performance shots. - Leadership expertise and experience is profoundly lacking.