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am_Unition  ·  1539 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inside SpinLaunch, the Space Industry’s Best Kept Secret

The idea of a successful transition from a vacuum tube to sea-level-ish atmosphere while traveling at Mach 6 is probably the funniest part. That's 2 kilometers per second. When your shit hits air, the shock wave will be more than strong enough to critically damage your facility.

Like, remember that yuge nosecone on that new whats-a-plane you posted? We'll just make it longer, and curved, guys, so it can go around the tube, of course. This is gonna work, I just know it!!

ThurberMingus: thanks to you too, I'm cracking up.

Edit: no, no, the best part is when it's casually mentioned that SpinLaunch will also require a boost from rocket propulsion to finally make it to orbit. So we're gonna do all of this with... a bomb... at 10,000 g's... hahahkhahahah