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Can Spinlaunch Throw Rockets Into Space?
Scott Manley
Scott Manley looks at SpinLaunch, which aims to throw launch vehicles out of a spinning launcher at hypersonic speed. He covers its recent Mach 1 test of a one-third scale launcher and the engineering problems that remain.
HN treats it as the more informed, balanced take on SpinLaunch's tradeoffs.
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