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SpinLaunch is one of those rare companies that feels like it stepped out of a 1970s sci-fi paperback—except it’s real, and it’s quietly reshaping how we think about space access. The company uses rotational kinetic energy to hurl payloads into space without conventional rockets. Their system involves a vacuum-sealed centrifuge that spins a payload to hypersonic speeds and releases it through a launch tube. The goal: dramatically reduce launch costs, minimize fuel use, and enable frequent launches.
SpinLaunch’s Suborbital Accelerator at Spaceport America in New Mexico has successfully launched test payloads at hypersonic speeds since 2021– without rockets or chemical propellants. The company claims their system could reduce launch costs by up to 10x, especially for small satellites. Though still in development, the system could eventually launch small satellites into Earth orbit. The extreme acceleration forces (~10,000 g) needed to launch them from Earth mean only specially hardened electronics and components can survive.
SpinLaunch tech can theoretically be adapted for low-gravity environments, on the Moon and asteroids to launch raw materials into space. The materials could then be used to build orbital habitats or transported to Earth. NASA signed a Space Act Agreement to evaluate SpinLaunch’s technology for future missions.
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It’s the year 2075. nestled in the shadowed rim of Shackleton Crater near the lunar south pole, a sprawling base hums with quiet purpose. The sun never sets here—it just skims the horizon, feeding vast solar arrays that glint like obsidian wings.
At the heart of the base lies the SpinLaunch Lunar Accelerator, a sleek, vacuum-sealed launch tunnel embedded in regolith. It stretches like a silver arrow across the dust, aimed at Earth’s orbit. Inside, payloads of refined lunar ore—aluminum, titanium, even rare helium-3—are spun to hypersonic speeds and flung into space, feeding orbital foundries and Earth’s energy grid.
Modular habitats cluster nearby, their domes shielded with regolith and water ice. Inside, engineers monitor launch telemetry, biologists tend to greenhouse crops, and artists sketch Earthrise from the observation dome. Robotic miners trundle across the terrain, scooping regolith and feeding it into processing units that sort, refine, and package materials for launch.
A tall communications mast beams data to Earth and Mars, while a rover convoy returns from a nearby lava tube—potential site for expansion. The base is quiet, efficient, and beautiful in its starkness. It’s not a city yet, but it’s a beginning.
And above it all, Earth hangs in the sky—blue, fragile, and watching.
A small portion of the Evergreen Paper Food Containment Packaging Facility of which the Blue Ridge Southern Railroad serves at Canton, North Carolina, 9-16-2022. The railroad provides the raw materials for the manufacturing process with such items as wood chips, coal for furnaces, chemical, various materials carried in covered hoppers and box cars with various items. The paper packaging facility has its own switcher to handle its private railroad yard.
In Jamalpur, jute sticks are dominating over fibers these days, the bumper outturn of jute makes the farmers happy and it helps them to recover their loss for sudden flood. Dealers of jute stick are going to the farmers for making advance but the farmers are not keen to make deal right now as they know the price will rise up. Same scenario has been observed when traveling the areas where jute is retted and jute sticks are dried. The usage of jute sticks increased about 30 % in our locality, sticks are not only used as fuel elements it has been used as the raw materials for paper industry. Day by day the production of jute is increasing and in my area jute has been cultivating almost 50000 Hector
land and almost 80 thousand metric tons of jute sticks is produced, the market price is over 12 core tk(BD).As the jute sticks are environmental friendly so its usage is increasing day by day and everyone hope one day the golden time of golden fiber will regain.
Stack of old discarded wheels
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It must have been terrible for the Viking craftsman. He lost all his equipment while he traveled across the lake Mästermyr on the island of Gotland. In 1936 the wooden chest containing all the tools were found at the bottom of the former lake, which now had turned into a bog. There are axes, hammers, tongs, punches, plate shears, saw blades, files, rasps, drills, chisels, knives, awls and whetstones among the 200 objects that were found in the chest. There are also raw material and scrap iron as well as finished objects such as locks, keys, a frying pan, cauldrons and bells.
The funny thing is that the tools are at least 1000 years old but look like they could have been made today. They are of the same material, have the same shapes and the same functions as modern tools.
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Text: Inga Ullén, photo by Christer Åhlin/SHMM
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jute sticks are dominating over fibers these days, the bumper outturn of jute makes the farmers happy and it helps them to recover their loss for sudden flood. Dealers of jute stick are going to the farmers for making advance but the farmers are not keen to make deal right now as they know the price will rise up. Same scenario has been observed when traveling the areas where jute is retted and jute sticks are dried. The usage of jute sticks increased about 30 % in our locality, sticks are not only used as fuel elements it has been used as the raw materials for paper industry. Day by day the production of jute is increasing and in my area jute has been cultivating almost 50000 Hector
land in My living district JAMALPUR and almost 80 thousand metric tons of jute sticks is produced, the market price is over 12 core tk(BD).As the jute sticks are environmental friendly so its usage is increasing day by day and everyone hope one day the golden time of golden fiber will regain.
The bulk carrier Eilhard Schulte (IMO 9188623) berthed in the Spanish port of A Coruña. Seen from Fred. Olsen's Royal Viking Star class cruise ship Boudicca (IMO 7218395).
25 April 2011
Le vraquier Eilhard Schulte (IMO 9188623 ) amarré au port espagnol de La Corogne. Vue depuis le navire de croisière de la classe Royal Viking Star de Fred. Olsen Cruises, le MS Boudicca (IMO 7218395 )
25 avril 2011
chicago, illinois
october 1959
south works steel mill
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Number Six blast furnace, completed in 1953, has a capacity of 1 million nTPA, a working volume of 44,864 cubic feet, three stoves, and was built by Arthur G. McKee and Company.
jute sticks are dominating over fibers these days, the bumper outturn of jute makes the farmers happy and it helps them to recover their loss for sudden flood. Dealers of jute stick are going to the farmers for making advance but the farmers are not keen to make deal right now as they know the price will rise up. Same scenario has been observed when traveling the areas where jute is retted and jute sticks are dried. The usage of jute sticks increased about 30 % in our locality, sticks are not only used as fuel elements it has been used as the raw materials for paper industry. Day by day the production of jute is increasing and in my area jute has been cultivating almost 50000 Hector
land in My living district JAMALPUR and almost 80 thousand metric tons of jute sticks is produced, the market price is over 12 core tk(BD).As the jute sticks are environmental friendly so its usage is increasing day by day and everyone hope one day the golden time of golden fiber will regain.
This hauntingly minimal photograph captures a layered, abstract architectural scene from an exhibit inside MAAT Lisbon. Weathered concrete panels, exposed studs, and sections of plywood form a quiet composition that blurs the line between construction and deconstruction. Warm wood tones contrast starkly against cool slate grays, evoking the rhythm of geometry and decay. It’s a meditation on negative space, urban erosion, and the poetics of unfinished environments. The piece compels viewers to question what is being built—or what has been left behind. Displayed with reverent simplicity at MAAT, this work invites introspection through the language of line, shadow, and raw material.
Detail of Essar Steel Algoma's ironmaking facility at night: Number Seven blast furnace, smokestacks, conveyor belt structures (raw materials), and support buildings.
Eight second exposure. Processing alchemy with Nik Collection Dfine 2 and Color Efex: tonal contrast with a little bit of the glamour glow filter. Finished with Apple Aperture.
jute sticks are dominating over fibers these days, the bumper outturn of jute makes the farmers happy and it helps them to recover their loss for sudden flood. Dealers of jute stick are going to the farmers for making advance but the farmers are not keen to make deal right now as they know the price will rise up. Same scenario has been observed when traveling the areas where jute is retted and jute sticks are dried. The usage of jute sticks increased about 30 % in our locality, sticks are not only used as fuel elements it has been used as the raw materials for paper industry. Day by day the production of jute is increasing and in my area jute has been cultivating almost 50000 Hector
land in My living district JAMALPUR and almost 80 thousand metric tons of jute sticks is produced, the market price is over 12 core tk(BD).As the jute sticks are environmental friendly so its usage is increasing day by day and everyone hope one day the golden time of golden fiber will regain.
Ash Grove Cement Plant, which makes lime from limestone, at night, Durkee, Oregon, USA [No property release; available for editorial use only]
This new H0 layout of "Modelspoor Atelier Oostkamp VZW (BE)" was first time showed to the public on this Expo 2014 edition. The layout has as base a double track line with many side tracks who show different themes. The builders created for example a harbour for the delivery of raw material for the steel industry which contains a blast furnace, steel factory, coke plant, slag mountain and so on. But there is much more to see.
some of the things I've made with the clover's I've found... blogged about how to find four leaf clovers.
A traditional market in Bangladesh.
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chicago, illinois
october 1959
south works steel mill
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
From a time when everything was natural and locally sourced. Whether you needed a fence post, window pane or front door, the choice was easy.
Homesteads had two front doors for a variety of reasons, depending on the style, age, and location. Oftentimes, one door was for formal (guests) and one door for casual, everyday access. Sometimes it was designed to improve air flow since there was no air-conditioning.
Rural Arkansas.
Photo # IMG_8652bw. April, 2013.
(c) Kelly Shipp Photography.