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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Guest_User@lemmy.world 1 year agoHe’s right though, you don’t need a rocket to launch stuff
LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch 1 year ago
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.
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.
cryball@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
My bad. You don’t need a rocket to launch stuff.