Lunar Sling Launcher - Release Mechanism

Building a subscale prototype. Part 1 - release mechanism The previous two blog posts described what lunar sling tethers are and why they are a good idea. But a lot has been written about the topic. Now it&#x27;s time to build something. Why? A sling launcher on earth is pretty useless. You have some fundamental velocity limitations due to atmospheric drag. A useful number is the rough energy…