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kleinbl00  ·  1107 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: SpinLaunch conducts first test of suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America

    Building the system in a remote location at the spaceport was difficult, he said. “Being an hour away from any kind of civilization and support certainly presented its own set of challenges,” he said, exacerbated by extreme weather conditions there. “We needed a location that was a combination of being affordable, gave us the freedom to move quickly, and had airspace that goes all the way to the edge of the atmosphere.”

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

    The centrifuge ran at 20% of its maximum power, he said. He declined to give specific details about the projectile’s flight, but said it flew at supersonic speeds and reached altitudes of “tens of thousands of feet.”

Thereby putting them within an order of magnitude of - wait for it - Embry Riddle

In other news, HOWARD HUGHES CONDUCTS FIRST TEST OF H4 HERCULES