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Using Sling Shot Power to Hurl Into Orbit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-wating-for-my-space-trebuchet dept.

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."

4 of 310 comments (clear)

  1. mod bomb me by deadsaijinx* · · Score: -1, Redundant

    FP attempt for me!!!

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    YOU SUCK BALLS!
  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    slurp slurp

  3. Re:Hmmmm by firehzd1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

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

  4. Re:Fr15ht |*s0t!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    I'm so happy for you!

    Anyway, I'm gonna get royally drunk tonight even though I have to work tomorrow. Maybe I'll be drunk/hungover enough to tell my bitch of a boss what I really think of her...