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As long as your satellite can withstand 10,000 Gs, spinlaunch will work great.

Founded in 2014, SpinLaunch has secured significant funding and has collaborated with major organizations like NASA, Airbus, and Cornell University, using their equipment in various tests. The technology has successfully withstood forces of up to 10,000 Gs, equivalent to 10,000 times Earth's gravitational pull, demonstrating its robustness.

Hopefully the minds behind it don't go the way of arty genius gone rogue Gerald Bull: "NARRATOR: To the end of his days, Bull was obsessed with what he saw as the injustice of his four‑month jail term."

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/wgbh/pages/frontline/prog...




alot of the cost savings maybe shaved by needing to redesign the satallite to handle 10,000gs.


You gotta love how they just handwave away the fact that this is basically impossible with current technology. I guess payload design to such specs will be the customer's problem.


Not much space for anything hollow, or delicate, in those satellites.




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