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Devac · 888 days ago · link · · parent · post: SpinLaunch conducts first test of suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America
Ah, a rookie mistake: you counterbalance your payload with a second payload, release 180 degrees later. And people thought a theorist can't engineer good. I'm mildly disappointed they aren't hiring anyone to develop inertia dampeners or cetacean tractor beams.Spinlaunch has made no provisions for the hypothetical counterbalance