Space Yeeting Company Interested in W Australia

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Irrev-Black
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Space Yeeting Company Interested in W Australia

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Imagine if they could harness the spin from certain offices in Canberra! :D
Spaceflight company Spinlaunch is conducting a feasibility study to determine if two areas of crown land off the Eyre Highway could be used as a launch site for its orbital accelerator.

Unlike traditional launch systems, the accelerators use kinetic energy to catapult projectiles into the upper atmosphere before rockets push them into orbit.

The US company is looking at several sites around the globe, including two on the south coast of Western Australia near Mundrabilla, 800 kilometres from Kalgoorlie, and 1,300km from Perth.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-25/ ... /102772284
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I'd like to see the engineering that can handle the forces involved without instant dissassembly accompanying every launch.
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I'm very interested in how it works, but it does appear to. (For some values of "work".)

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