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.
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Women were the ultimate form of currency.
They are the ones who have been doing tests and launching test packages. If the satellites were too fragile and the physics were wrong, then they wouldn’t be advancing on the project.
or, the objects’ mass could be 10gm or so
Giant centrifuge spinning at a RPM needed to reach escape velocity, arms perfectly balanced to payload/counter weight then releasing the payload; unbalancing the centrifuge at max RPM.
That is a Boom when using bench grinders and nine inch handheld grinders.
Granted that was from damaged insulation but just imagine the challenge of building a spacecraft that will have to go probably 3-5 times that fast in air almost 5000 times that dense, and not cook the payload in the process.
My money's on a catapult ride to the stratosphere, followed by a chemical rocket boost to low earth orbit. Catapult to LEO? Not buying it.
I don’t think the slingshot would work. The object would burn up in the atmosphere. Maybe if you only gave it an assist with the slingshot it would work. Or if you did it on the moon.
Boy, you think there is a mess when a wind turbine explodes, wait till this thing goes south on them.
Can we use it to shoot ‘migrants back to South America?
Besides trying to load from the left side rather than the right, he probably was using the wrong gauge tampon.
LOL
(I do hope he made a soft landing)
Rocks are cheap.🤔
How about a space elevator?
pointed at the front and boat tailed in the rear.much more aerodynamic than spherical.
They could use a counterweight on the other side of the giant centrifuge, but how would they deal with the balance when the package is launched? I don’t know, but the forces involved are immense.
As a general rule, personnel are not supposed to stand in the turbine blade plane while jet engines are running. If this thing came apart due to a material failure of some sort, the explosion would be incredible. I wouldn’t want to be within several miles of it.
BTW, we already have reliable means to launch satellites, so even if this is a viable technology, we should ask why? Oh, it’s green. Now I am starting to think this is another green boondoggle. There are no shortage of companies fleecing our political class with pie in the sky “green” tech solutions.
First Men on the Moon
* Beautiful theme music here: Beautiful Actress
orbital velocity is 3 miles a second...escape is 7 miles a second....
10,800 mph vs 25000mph.
I don’t think that is correct. There is no “change of direction”.
At the moment of release, the satellite continues going the exact direction it was going but without the centrapetal force holding it in a circle.
The change in direction is while in the centrifuge.
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