It is great to see alternatives to Rockets becoming feasible, both for pollution reasons, as well as for the Moon, where it would be much easier to build this than to produce fuel.

it’s a 100 meter diameter chamber they are rotating at 450 rpm. This is about 10k g at peak loading. They pointed out that even unmodified smartphones and action cameras are within the tolerances needed to handle this and that might be hard to believe if you’ve ever dropped your phone and broken its screen but the screen breaks because you’re putting a whole lot of force on a very small point if you spread that amount of force over the entire device it’s not unrealistic that these things can handle that. So while they’re not going to get customers that just decide to switch their satellite from falcon 9 to this rocket they might well be able to get customers who are interested in the complete ecosystem who can build their satellites to the specs required in exchange for having a much cheaper launch system

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