Although the new launching system contains nothing particularly novel in terms of technology; all that was actually needed was someone insane enough to envision a space catapult. Now, the world's first 'space catapult' is going to shoot objects at speeds of 5,000 MPH into the cosmos.
The very first known catapult was devised by the ancient Greeks in 400 BC. The Soviet Union used a rocket powered structure to launch the Sputnik I satellite in 1957. In 2022, a firm in New Mexico is trying to integrate those two innovations.
Satellites and supplies could very well shortly be launched into space utilizing advanced technologies clearly influenced by ancient Greece, if a collaboration between NASA and a California-based start-up group appears productive.
SpinLaunch, a US firm, revealed in a latest press release that its ‘in-the-works’ catapult will indeed be adept of transferring items into space by thrusting them at 5,000 miles per hour from its 300-foot diameter vacuum chambe...
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