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Spin Me Up, Scotty—Up Into Orbit

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Rather than shoot it in a gun, it would sling it from the end of of a carbon-fiber tether that spins around in a vacuum chamber for as long as an hour before reaching terminal speed. And as there’s a certain amount of energy stored in the tether itself, you can recapture that through regenerative braking.”. SpinLaunch.