Blue Origin loses launch contract as Telesat switches to SpaceX::undefined

  • sebinspace
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    351 year ago

    I mean… you kinda need a rocket to… you know… launch stuff.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        Tweaking the nuke to achieve a specific orbit might prove to be difficult. Also it’s not like Blue Origin has nukes right?

        • @Guest_User
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          31 year ago

          He’s right though, you don’t need a rocket to launch stuff

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            You do need some sort of thrust to get into orbit though. You can get INTO space with something like spinlaunch, but you won’t stay there without a second stage to circularize the orbit.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              I mean you could stay in space, if you were to reach escape velocity. Heat might be an issue though.

              • @[email protected]
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                1 year ago

                https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob

                It is theorized now that heat was actually an issue for the steel bore cap that was shot by a nuke at over 150,000 mph, which very much exceeds escape velocity.

                While its more or less of a joke about “shooting a manhole cover into space”, some think that at least a tiny bit of that bore cap could have made it.