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I think it's a cool idea. What increase in G's are we talking about launching things this way?



SpinLaunch: ~10000G

Rocket: ~5G

So roughly 3 orders of magnitude.


Wow are there issues with making things like chips that can even survive that? I remember when I was a scientist and 10,000g was some very high speed centrifuging that you better make sure everything like even glass and plastic can handle.


> SpinLaunch: ~10000G

I admit I was surprised people were able to build hardware that survived that.




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