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Giant catapult sends satellites into space without rocket fuel (www.thebrighterside.news)
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[–] SkybreakerEngineer 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

[–] bluemellophone 3 points 1 month ago

You’d be surprised how well modern cubesats are already designed implicitly with high-G components. There was a video about them testing an “off-the-shelf” sat from a professor and it held up with only some minor modifications.

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