Using Sling Shot Power to Hurl Into Orbit

the_2nd_coming writes "space.com has an article about a new application of a very old technology. NASA is putting money into Momentum-eXchange/Electrodynamic Reboost tether technology -- MXER for short -- an innovative concept that if implemented would station miles and miles of cart-wheeling cable in orbit around the Earth. Then, rotating like a giant sling, the cable would swoop down and pick up spacecraft in low orbits, then hurl them to higher orbits or even lob them onward to other planets."

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Re:Hmmmm

[firehzd1]

He got the idea one day when he was looking at his trusty old slingshot he used to keep in his back pocket!