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am_Unition · 1539 days ago · link · · parent · post: Inside SpinLaunch, the Space Industry’s Best Kept Secret
This sounds regrettably naive. I've worked on the mechanical design of space instrumentation for quite a few missions. The guy that they quote in the Wired article is 100% correct when he points out that 10,000 g's will destroy essentially any satellite payload. So, for this to ever be feasible, we just need to figure out how to completely scrap all existing knowledge of satellite payload engineering and start from scratch. Guys, this is gonna work! I just need another four billion dollars by Sunday.