Amazon patents new way to get into space
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2020 9:23 am
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/whip-good ... air-orbit/
"Never let it be said that Amazon Prime Air VP Gur Kimchi thinks small: His latest patent lays out a plan for a launch system that could theoretically send payloads into space on the end of a miles-long whip, guided by a phalanx of drones attached to the lash."
What could possibly go wrong?
Unfortunately it seems to require room-temperature superconducting wire, so I am not holding my breath.
"Never let it be said that Amazon Prime Air VP Gur Kimchi thinks small: His latest patent lays out a plan for a launch system that could theoretically send payloads into space on the end of a miles-long whip, guided by a phalanx of drones attached to the lash."
What could possibly go wrong?
Unfortunately it seems to require room-temperature superconducting wire, so I am not holding my breath.
But they aren't here yet....