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Re:Space catapult startup SpinLaunch comes out of stealth by stcredzero on Friday February 23, 2018 @01:34AM (#16444655)
Even ignoring air resistance, if your hypothetical spacecraft centrifuge had a radius of one mile, then the spacecraft would still experience 114 g at 3000 miles per hour

We can build electronic components that are rated for 100000 g's. I think craft that can withstand 10's of g's are within our capability to build. Why not make the circle the size of the LHC? Why not larger?

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Re:Space catapult startup SpinLaunch comes out of stealth by anonytrary on Friday February 23, 2018 @02:17AM (#16444787)
It's about the payload. It is also accelerating. It would be flattened to a crisp.
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Re:Space catapult startup SpinLaunch comes out of stealth by stcredzero on Friday February 23, 2018 @02:25AM (#16444803)
Anything like this should be assumed to be launching bulk payloads or hardened payloads. For machines 10's of g's is not that big a deal. It's challenging, but quite doable. For lots of kinds of bulk cargo, it's not a big deal.
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Re:Space catapult startup SpinLaunch comes out of stealth by anonytrary on Friday February 23, 2018 @03:22AM (#16444966)
Yeah, I'm sure certain restricted types of cargo may be launched this way. We will still need rockets for the vast majority of cargo types.
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