Blue Origin loses launch contract as Telesat switches to SpaceX::undefined

  • LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch
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    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.

    • cryball
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      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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        1 year ago

        https://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, which very much exceeds escape velocity.

        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.