Re:SpinLaunch completes first test flight with rocket-flingi...
by mgsouth on Saturday November 13, 2021 @10:02PM
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There's a slide in Manley's video that says gross vehicle weight is 11,000 kg. And 450 RPM @ 100 m diameter, so 2 km/s. Kinetic energy for vehicle is 22 GJ. Equivalents:
* 5 metric tons TNT
* 1/3000 Little Boy atomic bomb
* 4 barrels of crude oil (!)
* Boil 2,300 gallons of water
* 0.25 mg of matter converted to energy
* Enough energy to melt two 11,000 kg iron counterweights, with 2 GJ left over
* 5 metric tons TNT
* 1/3000 Little Boy atomic bomb
* 4 barrels of crude oil (!)
* Boil 2,300 gallons of water
* 0.25 mg of matter converted to energy
* Enough energy to melt two 11,000 kg iron counterweights, with 2 GJ left over
* A magnitude 3.7 earthquake [1]
[1] https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/energy.html