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Space gun - Wikipedia A space gun, sometimes called a Verne gun because of its appearance in From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, is a method of launching an object into space using a large gun- or cannon-like structure
That Time the Soviet Union Shot a Secret Space Cannon in Orbit In 1975, the USSR fired a cannon from an orbiting space station We finally got a good look at the gun A quarter-century after the Cold War came to a close, the only cannon that actually fired
Rikhter R-23 - Wikipedia Firing up to 2,500 rpm, the R-23 was the fastest firing single-barrel cannon ever introduced into service The R-23 took some time to develop and was not used operationally until 1964 It was used only in the tail turret of the Tu-22, and experimentally on the Salyut 3 space station
This Hypersonic Space Cannon Promises To Launch Rockets From The hydrogen cannon can be fired every 60-90 minutes, sending its hypersonic projectile skyward where it’ll “penetrate the atmosphere within a minute and shed its aeroshell ” Low earth orbits between 300-1,000 km (186-621 miles) can be achieved in under two hours, and some much quicker
SpinLaunch shot a satellite into the sky - Universe Space Tech NASA will soon be launching its satellites into low Earth orbit thanks to a recent partnership with a startup working on a giant SpinLaunch space cannon in the form of a centrifuge SpinLaunch recently completed ten successful tests of its suborbital kinetic accelerator
Satellite survived a shot from SpinLaunchs “space cannon” SpinLaunch has proven that satellites can survive a shot from a “space cannon” A California startup that develops a unique launch system has tested launching a small satellite under extreme gravitational forces to show it can withstand acceleration up to 10,000G