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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by jhgb on Friday April 15, 2022 @03:11PM (#31044435)
And how long is the arm supposed to be in the intended orbital system? Because if you want a 500m arm, you literally have a millions-of-cubic-meters-sized vacuum chamber -- and not only that, you have a vacuum chamber with a highly disadvantageous shape (a flat disc). That sounds like a mildly insane design to me.
Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by Retric on Friday April 15, 2022 @03:55PM (#31045007)
50m sorry 500 was a typo.

“This test accelerator is 108 ft (33 m) in diameter, which makes it a one-third scale of the operational system that is being designed.”