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Re:SpinLaunch raises $40M to build a machine to catapult obj... by gnode on Friday June 15, 2018 @12:15PM (#17320917)
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply this wasn't the case. I've edited this in now.
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Re:SpinLaunch raises $40M to build a machine to catapult obj... by rory096 on Friday June 15, 2018 @01:50PM (#17321893)
Given that the grandparent is presumably Ben Einstein of Bolt VC, an early investor in SpinLaunch, it sounds safe to say it's not using maglev at all. They say the catapult will be a centrifuge spinning inside a vacuum.

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ben-einstein

https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/spinlaunch-converti...

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