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Why is catapulting rockets still not a thing?
Recent 20 years have seen an explosion in computational capabilities and reusable space vehicles. It baffles me why do all rockets still burn from zero velocity instead of:
dropped from an airplane
thrown via electric motor
Gauss gun?
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