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A little bit sideways, it automatically stabilises. how many gs is this thing pulling as it goes around? so, the system pulls 10,0006s at peak speed. you can't put people in this, can you? you cannot put people. i mean, you could put people in, but you won't get people out. to prove it works, these guys put an iphone 4 into the accelerator and got it up to 12,500 g. it still works. 0op! hmm. the company says it's eventually planning for up to five launches a day and it will cost about $500,000 per launch compared to $7 million for a rocket launch. before then, testing is ongoing using the 33m ...

Get you all the way there. right, 0k. the vehicle is passively stable, so you can see it has a heavy tip in the front, fins in the back. that provides passive stability that stabilises it like a dart. so if it comes out a little bit sideways, it automatically stabilises. how many gs is this thing pulling as it goes around? so, the system pulls 10,000 gs at peak speed. you can't put people in this, can you? you cannot put people. i mean, you could put people in but you won't get people out. to prove it works, these guys put an iphone 4 into the accelerator and got it up to 12,500 g. it still wo...

And got it up to 12,500 g. it still works. 0op! hmm. the company says it's eventually planning for up to five launches a day and it will cost about $500,000 per launch, compared to $7 million for a rocket launch. before then, testing is ongoing using the 33m arm in new mexico and a 12m arm here in long beach, california. and i've been invited to witness a test launch first—hand. now, the 12m accelerator won't be launching into the air. this much smaller projectile will be fired down a tube and straight into a steel plate. what happens to this after it's launched from that? so this mostly tur...

Million for a rocket launch. before then, testing is ongoing using the 33m arm in new mexico and a 12m arm here in long beach, california. and i've been invited to witness a test launch first—hand. now, the 12m accelerator won't be launching into the air — this much smaller projectile be fired down a tube and straight into a steel plate. what happens to this after it's launched from that? so this mostly turns to dust as it hits the end of the tunnel. oh, my gosh. dramatic music. now, where were we? oh, yeah! 500 miles an hour. so now you're going about as fast as a jet. the actual projecti...

Before then, testing is ongoing using the 33m arm in new mexico and a 12m arm here in long beach, california. and i've been invited to witness a test launch first—hand. now, the 12m accelerator won't be launching into the air. this much smaller projectile will be fired down a tube and straight into a steel plate. what happens to this after it's launched from that? so this mostly turns to dust as it hits the end of the tunnel. oh, my gosh. dramatic music now, where were we? oh, yeah! 500 miles an hour. so, now you're going about as fast as a jet. the actual projectiles and the spinning arm ar...