So I ended up exhausted last night and spent thirteen hours drifting in and out of sleep. One of the drowsy thoughts I had was "but what if they were serious about it tho, I oughtta run the numbers."

So to account for Am_u's observation that you get one, one orbit out of this device, I decided it should be a useful one. Thus, we're gonna go for GTO. That's 9.8km/sec, 10k if you're nasty.

To account for the fact that said device needs to be useful, we're going to act like it needs to get a Falcon 9's payload to GTO. That doesn't matter tho it falls out of the equation.

We're going to not modify the shit out of our payloads and presume they're gonna top out at 1.5G of stress.

We're going to assume a circular maglev track big enough to accomplish this. We're gonna spin it around as many times as we need to accelerate to 10km/s using magnetic force. Once we're at velocity we're going to switch it to a straight line climbing up a mountain, it obviously won't be high enough, it obviously will still require a wicked ablative shield, it will require a track that looks like a blunderbuss because it's gonna be exciting up there, but let's get to the dealbreaker first.

I wanted to draw a map of this, unfortunately the radius of the Earth is 6300km.