The insane physics behind a mass accelerator technology designed to move payloads into space by company called 'SpinLaunch'

What kind of payload are you launching that can withstand 10,000 G's? That's exerting a force of approximately 23,000 PSI. Wild!

A lot of ideas have been described as insane and then go on to change the world. This is not one of those ideas, it's just insane.

One wrong spin and we unlocking a new crater on Earth.😭

This doesn't work because of centrifugation force will tear whatever payload you have onboard to shreds.

It’s an assist technique. Conventional rockets will still be needed to reach escape velocity. But, it’s pretty cool! 👍🏼

Yeah let's see them pull that off.

Pretty much

This is what happens in my stomach when I eat Quiznos

If they sending lemons to Mars and the Martians paid for lemonade.. its a HUGE WIN @elonmusk @iontecs_pemf

Actually it's a failed hypersonic weapon repurposed as an orbital launch option

Absolutely idiotic technology. Only possible to launch solid ball

So, a few issues. 1) release time has to be extremely precise. 2) at the moment of release, the rotating assembly is unbalanced unless it releases an equivalent mass in the opposite direction 3) it’s probably going to be necessary to put this thing on a high mountain top

This has been a concept for many years and still has not produced anything.

Fuck off they have been talking about this for 20 years now.

They were founded in 2014 and have recently pivoted to manufacturing satellites for a broadband constellation and are using conventional third party rocket services to achieve orbital flight. It's a cool concept but to date they have never achieved orbital flight using their SpinLaunch technology. It's unclear if they will continue development of their spin tech or if it will ever be a viable solution to achieve orbital flight.

What’s insane about the physics?

what if you launch split second early ? lol

Now calculate the radius of that thing at which materials are strong enough to withstand the centrifugal force at escape velocity

huh? @grok explain

One faulty release mechanism and the whole station is cooked

How many G is that??

Very insane!

What a retarded video

Coincidentally the way, my seven-year-old launches my five-year-old

So basically Angry Birds but for NASA.

In reality this is probably only good for shooting shit into space that is far from fragile to be collected for an ongoing purpose. This could be much more useful on a terrestrial body in space with low gravitational pull.

Yooo this is amazing, I love things in which physics is involved 👀💙

I always wondered why something this wouldn't be done, I didn't imagine it this way but anyway. I have little clue but why wouldn't it be possible to send basic materials that way, like resources. Some kinds of fuel or metals anything that doesnt react to the g forces.

Good morning

Is this even necessary?

I have a feeling that much force acting on the rocket itself could damage the components for flight

That truly is a set of perfect machines.