Reply to post: Re: Makes you wonder

NASA sets November date for next SLS Moon rocket delay, er, launch

John Robson Silver badge

Re: Makes you wonder

The plan is generally to not get all the way to orbital velocity, but to get out of the pesky atmosphere (or at least high in it) without having to burn fuel (which you had to carry, and therefore burn more fuel to carry the fuel...).

Those fuel savings are very, very real.

Whether or not spinlaunch ever manage to put payloads into orbit we do at least know that the maths works.

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