Scientists Find a Way to ‘Catapult’ Rockets Into Space Like ‘Slingshots’
23rd January 2022
“It’s a radically different way to accelerate projectiles and launch vehicles to hypersonic speeds using a ground-based system,” Jonathan Yaney, CEO of SpinLaunch, a California-based spaceflight technology company that has been involved in the development of the system, told CNBC. According to its website, the company aims to build “the world’s lowest-cost space launch system.”
Wonder whether that would work for ICBMs…?