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b_b · 834 days ago · link · · parent · post: Am_u is too much of a pussy to directly link to this spectacular 42-minute puff piece on the glory that is Spinlaunch
Based on my assumption that their renderings are to scale, the distance between airlocks looks like about 10 m to me in the 1/3 scale system. So I'm guessing that they'll be a 30 m in the full scale? Not sure about the projectile though. Is that 3 m also 1/3 scale? Because it matter a lot, since the doors can't close until the projectile is clear of door 1, which makes the effective distance one projectile length shorter than the full distance between the doors. That 30% means a lot when your tolerance is already a bit tight for comfort.