NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites into orbit
One wonders how practical this would be given the huge G forces involved, especially so for large complex satellites.<p>However, electronics have been subjected to such high G forces as far back as WWII but on a much smaller scale when the proximity fuze was introduced towards the end of the War (one of its first uses was at the Battle of the Bulge, Patton waxed lyrically about its high effectiveness): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Proximity_fuze" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Proximity_fuze</a><p>When I first heard about VT Fuzes years ago I didn&#x27;t really believe it because it didn&#x27;t use solid state devices, transistors etc. but rather a &#x27;ruggedized&#x27; vacuum tube (this was several years before the transistor was invented in 1947). At the time I couldn&#x27;t see how glass vacuum tubes could withstand ≈20,000Gs when fired out of a gun barrel but somehow they did.<p>Therefore, I&#x27;d imagine that upgrading to solid state devices would allow an even higher scaling in the G department (i.e.: relative to the VT Fuze), so it seems highly possible (perhaps the SpinLaunch idea actually originated from VT type Fuzes, I&#x27;d not be surprised).