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Giant catapult sends satellites into space without rocket fuel (www.thebrighterside.news)
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[โ€“] SkybreakerEngineer 7 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Launcher may handle 10,000 g's, but satellites tend to be kind of fragile

[โ€“] JeeBaiChow 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

How many oceangates is that? Can we send CEOs in it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

euthanasiacoaster without the extra steps

[โ€“] Voyajer 4 points 9 hours ago

Satellites have to go through shock and vibe testing based on the vehicle bringing them up, satellites using spinlaunch will need to be built around it.

[โ€“] OrganicMustard 1 points 6 hours ago

10000 g's of centigrugal acceleration for half an hour. I think that alone makes this project a dead end.