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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by LeifCarrotson on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:57PM (#31032464)
Scott Manley also put out a video on Spinlaunch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAczd3mt3X0

He...encourages caution. It's one thing to call a technology "debunked", another to say it's very difficult or that it has a low probability of success.

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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by MongooseMan on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:38AM (#31038194)
It's not impossible, but there's no reason to believe that the company is able to build it.

The founder has little demonstrable understanding of physics, and their demonstration video was misleading.

If SpinLaunch's idea was practical, it would've been in use for decades already. The company seems unaware of this... for now.

I look forward to watching SpinLaunch's progress.

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