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Devac  ·  1127 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: SpinLaunch conducts first test of suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America

    Spinlaunch has made no provisions for the hypothetical counterbalance

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.





kleinbl00  ·  1127 days ago  ·  link  ·  

THAT'S why we're full of mockery: we don't appreciate the tensile strength of transparent aluminum.