Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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#SpinLaunch is conducting a feasibility study to determine if two areas off the #Eyre Highway 🇦🇺 could be used as a #LaunchSite for its #orbital accelerator. The #LaunchSystem stands more than 50 metres tall and can reach speeds of 8,000km per hour. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-25/space-catapault-plan-for-wa-southern-goldfields/102772284
Picture : "From the #Earth to the #Moon" 📆 1868 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon%27_by_Henri_de_Montaut_45.jpg
#Spinlaunch #eyre #launchsite #orbital #launchsystem #earth #moon
JJ Biel-Goebel · @JJBG
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Really intregued by this approach of putting payloads in orbit. Can't wait to see more https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/spinlaunch-catapulted-a-nasa-payload
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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Who needs a #rocket if you may use a #slingshot ? #Spinlaunch test
https://youtu.be/M_50TM3OeEw
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/nasa-to-test-giant-slingshot-designed-to-fling-satellites-into-orbit/
#rocket #slingshot #Spinlaunch