Re:SpinLaunch completes first test flight with rocket-flingi...
by stevesearer on Saturday November 13, 2021 @01:58AM
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Maybe they can redirect the ejected mass away from the launch site with a huge curved underground tube Mythbusters' style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73FFitene58
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Re:SpinLaunch completes first test flight with rocket-flingi...
by dvdkhlng on Saturday November 13, 2021 @09:34AM
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Scott Manley talked on youtube about the centrifugal force on the wheel being around 10 thousand g (in the full sized version). So how do you build something that touches a tunnel at hypersonic velocity with many thousand tons of force without disintegrating? It's not like you can just add wheels or skates to your ejected mass (or the tunnel).