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

• 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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      • cryball@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean you could stay in space, if you were to reach escape velocity. Heat might be an issue though.

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