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[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] flyingSock@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

euthanasiacoaster without the extra steps

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks 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@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks 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 β€œoff-the-shelf” sat from a professor and it held up with only some minor modifications.

[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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