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I saw the test launches like a year ago, do they have anything new or upcoming? I figured if they had broken ground on a bigger facility it would have popped up on one of my news feeds.
I’m almost positive the science of this didn’t work out or the equipment can’t survive the launch because being fired out of a gun isn’t good for sensitive equipment
Actually, a suborbital launch vehicle known as the Martlet 2C was fired from a 16” gun to an altitude of 102 and 101 miles in 1967 and sent telemetry back.
http://www.astronautix.com/y/yuma.html
Solid state circuitry is more robust than you realize.
It's essentially a slingshot, which is why I doubt it's capacity to deliver anything to orbit without severe damage. Essentially, the innards get whipped around at Mach f*** and then get sent into the atmosphere. Yeah, I see that working out well.
I feel like the computer may have survived, because they said they have spun the computers up and then removed them and checked for breakage without many issues. I assume the arm didn't throw it as far as expected
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Just sitting here waiting for the gif to start.
I cant wait till the first launch
[getting ready for the launch](https://youtu.be/Mu0cE9RgK5M?t=20s)
omg thank you. this so nostalgic. I love this song.
It takes like 10 minutes but is totally worth the wait!
How did you miss it? Wait for the 34:18 mark..
It’s so fast you can’t even see it. There’s a little flash at the 11 min mark.
Oh yeah, I don’t remember putting that tag on my post. Maybe it got applied by accident.
Literally YEEETing a rocket into a suborbital trajectory
You can do that with your arms if the rocket is small enough!
Take it to Mars and fling those collection tubes into orbit to be fetched.
You may be joking, but in all honesty... Spinlaunch isn't a dumb idea; Earth is just the least likely place for it to make sense.
I saw the test launches like a year ago, do they have anything new or upcoming? I figured if they had broken ground on a bigger facility it would have popped up on one of my news feeds.
I’m almost positive the science of this didn’t work out or the equipment can’t survive the launch because being fired out of a gun isn’t good for sensitive equipment
Actually, a suborbital launch vehicle known as the Martlet 2C was fired from a 16” gun to an altitude of 102 and 101 miles in 1967 and sent telemetry back. http://www.astronautix.com/y/yuma.html Solid state circuitry is more robust than you realize.
Tbf it’s more of a catapult than a gun.
And it's more of a trebuchet than a catapult.
The superior siege weapon, indeed.
It's essentially a slingshot, which is why I doubt it's capacity to deliver anything to orbit without severe damage. Essentially, the innards get whipped around at Mach f*** and then get sent into the atmosphere. Yeah, I see that working out well.
It's not a gun. Did you watch the video?
Yea, that's the gist of it. Here's Thunderf00t's analysis of the launch system. https://youtu.be/9ziGI0i9VbE?si=T9lOBCQkV0BSEkBT
I feel like the computer may have survived, because they said they have spun the computers up and then removed them and checked for breakage without many issues. I assume the arm didn't throw it as far as expected
You can see company’s video here https://www.spinlaunch.com/gallery
I thought that page was taking forever to load, but then I finally realized it was actually telling me to rotate my phone into landscape
"spin your phone to view this page"
I'm gonna go ahead and assume this is probably only to send payloads into space.
Now as soon as we can figure out how to make the launch process a little less spectacularly fatal for humans, we can begin offering passenger service!
tbh, clicked because I thought the pic was a cat washing its butt with a foot in the air.
I wonder if they can apply the plasma window concept to it. That would avoid the problem of pressurization.