Posted on 10/21/2024 11:52:29 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina
This technology aims to revolutionize the way satellites are sent into space, using a giant rotating arm to fling satellites into low Earth orbit.
(Excerpt) Read more at thebrighterside.news ...
I haven’t dug through the links or the company’s website, but I don’t see anything about payloads, altitudes, velocities and flight duration achieved to date. They do have nice CGI videos there.
Do they have private funding or are they shaking the tree for grant money?
Yes, the payload has only to be designed to handle the centrifugal force, which is considerable but easily within engineering possibilities. Centripetal force is what keeps the thing from flying off in a straight line immediately.
Centripetal
The company plans to launch constellations of satellites into orbits below 600 miles by 2026.
Catapult should be less harmful to cargo than rockets. Way less vibration.
I would think that would be super hard to aim and massively reduce impact force. RfG are pure kinetic energy thrust in a straight line. This method introduces angular momentum, and not in a good way like rifling, but more like tumbling ash over teacups. That would cause stress on the rods so they either broke or burned. Regardless of which, it would be like trying to throw a football 70 yards like it was a knife. Now, if instead of Rods from God, you want Bowling Balls from God ... this might work.
A sphere has the least resistance to wind.
Slingshots can gradually accelerate, that’s what the big circle is for. Start slow, gain speed.
The environmental impact of traditional rocket launches has come under increasing scrutiny. Each launch contributes to the depletion of the ozone layer, which protects life on Earth from the sun’s harmful radiation. SpinLaunch’s method offers a potential solution, as it can breach the ozone layer without damaging it.
I remember a plan to use a huge airplane to ferry a rocket to high altitude and let it go into space from there....
A lot like the x15....or the x1 in terms of release from the mother ship.
A video from one of SpinLaunch’s test launches in New Mexico shows the excitement and precision involved. Engineers monitor screens, and the launch scene resembles that of a NASA mission control room. When the satellite exits the launch barrel, it happens so quickly that it’s easy to miss if you blink.
I’m no physicist, but this concept seems to be lacking some basic calculations.
Call it the “Pinochet Trebuchet” and start rounding up some Commies (Soros would be a good start).
Traitor-a-pult
Saves money on fuel compared to the Pinochet helicopter rides
That would be easier than a satellite
Now go away before I taunt you another tim-e.
Guess I should have read deeper into the article.
No, it doesn't.
Regards,
Won’t the atmoshperic friction from traveling 17,500 mph, or faster, burn up the payload going up, they same as it does coming down?
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