SpinLaunch just catapulted a NASA payload into the sky for the first time

Forget satellites: launch water, rocket fuel, 3D printing material!

Relativity Space is building 3D printers large enough to construct orbital-class rockets in one piece. Others will follow. If they can make printers work in vacuum at 0g, that's how we build our next-next generation of space stations. SpinLaunch wants to launch around the clock, multiple times per day. Just keep flinging materials and consumables to the construction robots building our future habs.

True - just to be over-precise; as I read it the launch (release) per se isn't 10000g, nor the acceleration (so to speak) to velocity inside the device, but the centrifugal force inside the device gets to 10000g. There are guided artillery shells whose electronics survives much greater force (although it's a tough, expensive way to go.) For an integrated circuit or solar panel designed for it, 10000g may not be that much, however. Not much compared to an artillery launch, at least.

We've been launching electronic devices by artillery since WWII - those with proximity fuses - without transistors!

Maybe about 1.7km/s at 75km apogee [0] for a low earth orbit of around 7-8km/s at 200km.

Then a regular(ish) rocket housed inside the centrifuge launch vehicle would separate and make up the rest.

0: https://twitter.com/DJSnM/status/1458467841779253253

Check out this Real Engineering video. Goes it a lot of engineering details.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrc632oilWo

This device is not capable of putting anything into orbit. Orbits require velocity tangent to a sphere around the parent body (approximately). This device imparts velocity at very nearly a right angle to that.