Company wants to 'throw' rockets into low orbit to save fuel (spinlaunch.com) 2 points by hemanthshenoy 1y ago ↗ HN
[–] giardini 1y ago ↗ Where's the beef?The video shows something spinning inside the cylinder and then a drawing of two circles connected by a line. WTF!?What altitude did this reach? [–] tocs3 1y ago ↗ Real Engineering (youtube channel)had an interesting video about Spinlaunch a couple years ago.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrc632oilWo [–] jfengel 1y ago ↗ They topped out at 30,000 feet, in 2022. They haven't done any tests since then, and they haven't reached the level of a commercial airliner.
[–] tocs3 1y ago ↗ Real Engineering (youtube channel)had an interesting video about Spinlaunch a couple years ago.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrc632oilWo
[–] jfengel 1y ago ↗ They topped out at 30,000 feet, in 2022. They haven't done any tests since then, and they haven't reached the level of a commercial airliner.
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[ 28.9 ms ] story [ 333 ms ] threadThe video shows something spinning inside the cylinder and then a drawing of two circles connected by a line. WTF!?
What altitude did this reach?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrc632oilWo