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SpinLaunch just Catapulted a NASA payload into the sky
Interesting Engineering ^ | 10/04/2022 | Chris Young

Posted on 10/04/2022 2:52:10 PM PDT by Vermont Lt

U.S. startup SpinLaunch — the company that aims to disrupt the rapidly-growing satellite launch industry by catapulting payloads into space with minimal rocket fuel — has just passed a massive test.

(Excerpt) Read more at interestingengineering.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: nasa; slingshot; spinlaunch
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To: Vermont Lt

wonder if the air ignites...


41 posted on 10/04/2022 5:04:19 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: moovova

Fetchez la vache!


42 posted on 10/04/2022 5:30:47 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: SES1066

>Made sure that there is a valid NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) for your launch window.

In case you didn’t get the memo, they changed NOTAM to:

Notice to Air Missions

https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/notam/what_is_a_notam


43 posted on 10/04/2022 5:32:49 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: ctdonath2
“launched skyward”

Lynyrd Skynyrd. My mind went there. Dunno why...
44 posted on 10/04/2022 5:36:13 PM PDT by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Some congress critter is associated with the government funding of this waste. I wonder who it is.


45 posted on 10/04/2022 7:29:44 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Ah. Yes, lifting a rocket the first few miles makes for the bulk of rocket mass. Hence Virgin Galactic’s approach of a large airplane doing the initial ~5 mile lift; much less mass needed when launching from up there.

Do though wonder then what the rocket’s mass is for SpinLaunch. That still leaves very little mass for satellite itself.


46 posted on 10/05/2022 7:24:16 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Statistics don't matter when they happen to you.)
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To: one guy in new jersey

I’ve seen some numbers on that. G force is insane, into the tens of thousands if I recall correctly.


47 posted on 10/05/2022 7:25:30 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Statistics don't matter when they happen to you.)
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To: ctdonath2

Whatever the viability of the technology being developed is, it’s being handed over to the Chinese, lock, stock and barrel, asse speak, a.k.a., in real time. Industrial scale spying is no longer a bug, it is now a (deep state/globalist) feature.


48 posted on 10/05/2022 11:20:44 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: ctdonath2

as we speak


49 posted on 10/05/2022 11:21:29 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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