一家美国公司试图打造巨型弹弓,可以将物体直接弹射进入太空,该计划被命名为“Slingatron工程”。数年前,物理学家德里克·蒂德曼设想了一个类似于转盘式弹弓的大型离心机,叫作“Slingatron”。其工作方式是将目标物体旋转达到一定的转速后抛离,从而使其逃离地球重力的吸引,如今,这一设想即将实现。据研究人员介绍,打造新型空间运输系统的目的在于减少入轨费用,比如一些体积较小的货物、补给物品就可以利用超级弹弓直接弹射进入空间轨道。这项工程主要通过离心和电磁原理对物体进行加速,不断增加的旋转速度使 A U.S. company trying to create a giant slingshot that can directly launch objects into space, the project was named “Slingatron Engineering.” A few years ago, physicist Derrick Tedman envisioned a large centrifuge similar to a rotary slingshot called “Slingatron.” The way it works is to rotate the target object to a certain speed and then throw it away so that it can escape the gravity of the Earth. Now, this vision is coming. According to the researchers, the purpose of building a new type of space transportation system is to reduce the cost of entering the orbit. For example, some small-sized goods can be directly ejected into the space orbit by using super-slingshots. The project mainly through the centrifugal and electromagnetic principles of objects to accelerate the increasing rotation speed so that