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Have you heard about SpinLaunch? SpinLaunch really came out of left field for me as a serious contender.
Really curious how they plan to re-balance a multi-ton spinning mass when half the mass gets ejected at 10,000 RPM.
That sounds nuts but the scale test went OK, so I guess they have a handle on that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinLaunch
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Have you heard about SpinLaunch? SpinLaunch really came out of left field for me as a serious contender.
Really curious how they plan to re-balance a multi-ton spinning mass when half the mass gets ejected at 10,000 RPM.
That sounds nuts but the scale test went OK, so I guess they have a handle on that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinLaunch