Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "Spinlaunch: BUSTED!" video.

  1. Several decades ago, my father was working on another space launch technology. He worked for a US Army laboratory. When I was a kid (half a century or so ago) he had an opportunity to spend six months in Barbados. He declined, by the way. He would not fly. His first experience of ships and planes was WWII in the Pacific. He developed an aversion to both. I mention that because I never found out from him what it was all about. This was typical. When I took physics in high school, he would have me do calculations. He would never tell me what it was about then either. Often, years later, when I worked in the aerospace and defense industry, I would get an inkling of what was going on. The project on Barbados, I found out later, was to use supergun technology to launch small satellites. This idea of a supergun was first pursued by the Nazis, then Saddam Hussein tried to develop it. The US military was then looking to adapt it to launch a constellation of small communication satellites quickly. I don't know if the launch method did not work, or if the idea of a constellation of small comsats was not developed enough to meet the requirements. This was long before the systems being launched now.
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