• @SkybreakerEngineer
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    77 days ago

    Launcher may handle 10,000 g’s, but satellites tend to be kind of fragile

    • @JeeBaiChow
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      67 days ago

      How many oceangates is that? Can we send CEOs in it?

    • @Voyajer
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      57 days ago

      Satellites have to go through shock and vibe testing based on the vehicle bringing them up, satellites using spinlaunch will need to be built around it.

    • @bluemellophone
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      36 days ago

      You’d be surprised how well modern cubesats are already designed implicitly with high-G components. There was a video about them testing an “off-the-shelf” sat from a professor and it held up with only some minor modifications.

    • @OrganicMustard
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      17 days ago

      10000 g’s of centigrugal acceleration for half an hour. I think that alone makes this project a dead end.