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Skyhooks Might Just Make Rockets a Thing of the Past – Interesting Engineering
He who laughs last laughs longest, as the saying goes. Never has this been more true than the concept of the skyhook.
Long an in-joke used among senior staff in factories and shipyards, to send new recruits on a fruitless search, skyhooks might actually become a real thing one day. In the latter sense, a skyhook, as the name suggests, is a theoretical momentum transfer…
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