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It's also strange because it's already well established that SpinLaunch is physically infeasible and borderline impossible to engineer, regardless of whether yo
by creatonez 2y ago
It's also strange because it's already well established that SpinLaunch is physically infeasible and borderline impossible to engineer, regardless of whether you have a 2nd stage. The article is written as if SpinLaunch has already been successfully tested for spaceflight, but it has not. No one should be promoting this scam.
- imtringued 2y agoYou can build a "spin launcher" on the moon. Vacuum is a non issue there. A much bigger problem is that SpinLaunch does not have a design that is viable for the moon, because an optimal tether launcher uses kilometer long tethers to achieve the same velocity at low g forces.