brandnewb
Going for serious. starting as newb
grrr. My wife is being what wifies do best.
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The video shows that the payload has a boost engine in it. The sling only gets the bullet through most of the atmosphere, then the shell drops off and the payload booster finishes the job. The G forces in the sling have to be pretty big though.yah, yah, I keep seeing these launch proposals.
Even if it can reach orbit or escape velocity down on earth, it has to punch through the atmosphere to get up there.
Anyone who has reviewed the velocity of reentry vehicles as they enter the atmosphere, and the velocity they have dropped to by the time they are near Earth's surface, would understand you can't go the other way and end up in orbit. At least not unless traveling far faster, and then the forces on it going through air would be incredible.
The ones that might work have an evacuated launch tube run up the side of Mount Everest.
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