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am_Unition · 619 days ago · link · · parent · post: Am_u is too much of a pussy to directly link to this spectacular 42-minute puff piece on the glory that is Spinlaunch
Btw, the reaction wheels are for attitude control of the missile. Oops, I mean launch vehicle*! Duh. Sorry, I was wiped last night. The language that they've developed reminds me of how a fascist hijacks political language. "Highly iterative design process" is probably my favorite phrase, substituted for "every design so far has failed, and failed quickly". I wonder if jargon and framing is something they're coached on or if it's just the usual cultural business rot of the VC world? Maybe both. I still can't figure out what payload SpinLaunch could hope to carry. It's seriously like "maybe we'll get lucky this time with a GoPro". Maybe Bezos is good for 10k g's? Let's try