A catapult to launch rockets.

in Popular STEM4 days ago

A catapult to launch rockets.



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The SpaceX rocket is a huge rocket, there are smaller rockets to travel to space, but there is a very curious method to travel to space, SpinLaunch Space System is a space company that has created a strange device 50 meters high that is a slingshot , what it does is spin the rocket very quickly and launch it basically like a wave is launched.


In the video you can see the device looks like something out of science fiction, and it is a prototype, it is not the size, the final size would be larger, even what we are seeing occurred on October 22, 2021 and as you can see, the launch system consists of This wheel that makes the rocket spin at enormous speed and launches it through that chimney.


This does not work to send humans into space because they would be crushed by the G forces, but it can be a great idea to launch goods into Earth orbit, a rocket would still be needed to finish taking the satellite or the goods to the corresponding orbit, With this system, for now at least the entire first launch phase is saved, which is quite a lot, a lot of money is saved in fuel and in the weight of sending the satellite or the equipment.




And this is the news that they have made, they have tested a satellite with a centrifuge that reached 10,000 G, which is brutal, to think that a person weighing 80 kg subjected to that centrifuge would weigh 800 tons, No living being would survive these forces, perhaps bacteria, the question is, would the equipment, a satellite, anything, material that is launched must not be sensitive to g forces.


The test has rotated until reaching 10,000 g with a satellite and the satellite held up. Apparently they only had to make some small adjustments and use a little glue to keep it all together but the satellite held up. This would be, as I say, it is a good The method to send equipment to space may be a bit of a beast here on Earth, the launcher would be larger, the original, but this on the moon would be something that could be useful, because you would need much less spinning power and you could send directly to orbit any ship or any equipment or any materials you want to send, maybe it would be a good method to get materials from the moon.




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