Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works to Good News Everyone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agoBut is it really a catapult?www.thebrighterside.newsexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: technikfurry_scientists@pawb.social
arrow-up132arrow-down1external-linkBut is it really a catapult?www.thebrighterside.newsMouselemming@sh.itjust.works to Good News Everyone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technikfurry_scientists@pawb.social
minus-squareCurufeanor@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoIf you really believe that this will work anytime in the next decade, and that it doesn’t need a rocket to circularize the projectile’s orbit, I have a bridge to sell you.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoFrom 2022: “SpinLaunch plans to loft small satellites into low Earth orbit by 2026.” They’re working on Elon Musk timelines. Two Starships on Mars by early 2024! Spinlaunch to Orbit in 2 years!
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoTo make it work, just add one year every year.
minus-squarevrighter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agotheir “successful proof of concept” video was hilariously very visibly tumbling out of control
If you really believe that this will work anytime in the next decade, and that it doesn’t need a rocket to circularize the projectile’s orbit, I have a bridge to sell you.
From 2022: “SpinLaunch plans to loft small satellites into low Earth orbit by 2026.”
They’re working on Elon Musk timelines. Two Starships on Mars by early 2024! Spinlaunch to Orbit in 2 years!
To make it work, just add one year every year.
their “successful proof of concept” video was hilariously very visibly tumbling out of control