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How fast is the payload when it leaves the launch tube?



2.1 km/s according to Wikipedia


I assume its a closed room because the acceleration isn't done in normal atmosphere - so you are going to literally explode out of this thing into normal air at 2100m/s?

Seems like a lot.


Seems like a lot, yet isn't no even close to the speed needed to yeet something into space.


Earth escape velocity is 11.1 km/s, which is Mach 32 at sea level. They have some more engineering to do, maybe even invent something better than carbon fibers.


Exactly. I don't think their scale demonstrator demonstrates much beyond the possibility of making a propulsion stage that survives the launch at 10000G's




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