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

• 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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      • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob

        It is theorized now that heat was actually an issue for the steel bore cap that was shot by a nuke at over 150,000 mph.

        While its more or less of a joke about “shooting a manhole cover into space”, some think that at least a tiny bit of that bore cap could have made it.

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