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The Skeptics Guide #856 - Dec 4 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Spin Launch System

The spin launch system is proposing a way of getting satellites, not people, but ike, satellites and stuff into lowerth orbit. Instead of using rockets all the way, youwill spin it up to five thousand miles per hour in a chamber like an evacuated in a vacuum chamber. By spinning it around, it around ten thousand r p m, you release it. When it's at full speed, it launches it into the upper atmosphere, to the edge of space,. Then lika stage type rocket takes over and gets it all the way into an orbital trajectory.

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