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Examples of objects/machines suriving accelarations of 15,000g+ [Slingatron KS]
- czottmann 13y agoThe Slingatron guys list examples of objects and machinery that could withstand the acceleration their proposed Slingatron launch system would produce. Very interesting, I didn't know half of those…
- nine_k 13y agoIn short: * 50k g acceleration is nothing much for the current crop of gun-fired munitions carrying electronics, batteries, cameras, thrusters and even foldable actuators. * 100k+ g that munitions have been developed in 1990s also include electronics and thrusters. * Electronic components are known to withstand 200k+ g, and plain polycarbonate solid projectiles used in railgun research don't break under 500k g. * So a spacecraft that withstands 40-60k g of Slingatron is definitely doable, even though axial accelerations need to be addressed, too.