Comment on Blue Origin loses launch contract as Telesat switches to SpaceX

sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  An underground nuke can launch a manhole cover fairly well.

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  • cryball@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tweaking the nuke to achieve a specific orbit might prove to be difficult.

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    • Guest_User@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He’s right though, you don’t need a rocket to launch stuff

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      • cryball@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My bad. You don’t need a rocket to launch stuff.

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      • LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You do need some sort of thrust to get into orbit though. You can get INTO space with something like spinlaunch, but you won’t stay there without a second stage to circularize the orbit.

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