Article 5RRBR This Company Wants to Launch Satellites Into Orbit Using a Giant Spinning Centrifugal Slingshot

This Company Wants to Launch Satellites Into Orbit Using a Giant Spinning Centrifugal Slingshot

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Andrew Liszewski
from Gizmodo on (#5RRBR)
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As impressive as it is to watch a rocket blast off into space, harnessing fossil fuels and explosions to pursue our dreams of space exploration is ironically primitive. A company called SpinLaunch thinks it has a better idea: It wants to launch small objects into space using a giant spinning centrifuge instead.

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