Lotta coulds, ifs and mights in this breathless koolaid-drinker’s puff piece (actually he’s probably just a shill). Lotta rendered images and animations. Lotta lack of anything tangible. Lotta totally irrelevant misdirection in the bottom half of the puff piece.
This isn’t a news piece. Nothing new has been done with this idea. It’s basically an ad (for vaporware). The headline is technically misleading, as no such thing has been done yet.
Thunderf00t busted this three years ago: https://youtu.be/9ziGI0i9VbE
Vaporware then, vaporware now
Lmao don’t be so dramatic.
It just takes building enough energy to launch the object of whatever mass.
It’s a mathmatical equation that will be solved by someone someday.
Edit: lmao do you babies bitch about all new tech?
A bunch of old men shaking their fists at clouds
“sends” in a headline means one thing to most people. They should have said “may one day send” if they wanted to be accurate.
In mice.
No wonder no one trusts the news when they make clickbait headliens like this
You can (theoretically) reach “space” with a single impulse from earth’s surface, but you cannot achieve earth orbit that way. To make orbit, you need a circularization burn at apogee to raise your perigee above the atmosphere. Otherwise, its ballistic trajectory will cause your spacecraft to re-enter the atmosphere.
Yeah, this is just a first stage replacement. You still need a rocket to get most of the way into orbit.
The first stage counts for the bulk of the fuel and total mass, so this would still be a big deal.
I only understand what you’re talking about because of Kerbal Space Program
I only know it because of Kerbal Space Program. :)
I’m disappointed it’s not a trebuchet
Can we use this to throw people we don’t like?
It would squish them first.
That’s fine we didn’t like them to begin with.
Spin your enemies at high speeds in a vacuum until they’re dead then launch their corpses into space
I haven’t see any kind of news or update from them in over a year
Yeah looks like they ran out of money.
Actually, I stand corrected. It looks like they raised $11.5 million a few months ago and are working on a ruggedized little satellite that would survive their centrifuge.
Also, “founder and CEO Jonathan Yaney left the company” ?
https://payloadspace.com/spinlaunch-raises-11-5m-to-hurl-more-spacecraft-into-the-sky/
Launcher may handle 10,000 g’s, but satellites tend to be kind of fragile
How many oceangates is that? Can we send CEOs in it?
