Super-powerful slingshot would take rockets to the orbiter.

One start-up company tests an interesting method for launching satellites to the orbiter. That method is just to use the extremely powerful slingshot that accelerates the rocket to the orbiter. Without the need to use rocket engines. If that thing is successful. It would solve one of the biggest problems of rocketry. That thing is noise.

If the use of rocket engines can replace by using the magnetic track or slingshot that thing would make spaceports more common than they are now. The slingshot or spin shot is the model that this company uses. There is a video of this system above this text. The system uses a centrifugal launcher.

Another way would be to use the high-altitude airship. The original launching system cannot use because it's too heavy. But the High-altitude airship or HAA. Can take the small rocket to an altitude of 20-30 kilometers. And that thing makes it possible to launch the small rockets to higher altitudes than the ground-based system allows.

If the system uses a long whip it can take the rocket higher. The whip is giving more launching energy to the small rocket. And then the computer-controlled hook would release the rocket. The whip would be at the side of the airship and then it would just throw the capsule to orbit. A small rocket or satellite can launch by using the whip. And then it can simply throw that rocket to a higher altitude.

Or the whip can rotate a couple of times, and that thing would give power to the rocket. This kind of slingshot launcher can also interest military operators. They can use to shoot grenades to long distances. And if the system uses an open structure that thing can be very highly mobile. If those high-tech slingshots replace cannons. That makes it possible to use all kinds of grenades in the same system. And no flame can uncover the position of the firing station. So this is one of the reasons why this kind of system is under development.

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