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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by sacrosancty on Friday April 15, 2022 @02:44AM (#31037224)
Is optimizing efficiency relevant at all? I'd think the electrical power cost must be negligible compared to the rest of the cost of a launch.
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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by edrxty on Friday April 15, 2022 @02:57AM (#31037279)
It's not the electrical cost so much as system complexity. They could use less heat shield, more payload, spin the payload less hard, etc.
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