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A newly published patent from Cutie has outlined a new method of launching sanctuary into the air using a miles-long whip engrossed to a armada of airborne craft. The patent, which was spotted by GeekWire, was filed inadvertently in March 2017 morally personally became ready beforehand this week. It muses that the method could offer an energy-efficient way of launching a payload, potentially sending it into low Earth orbit.

It's a pretty agrarian idea. Amazon's perceptible shows the whip engrossed to a nautical vehicle (read: a boat) via a winch at one end as well as an "aerial vehicle" credited the payload on another. Furthermore the whip is simply a shakiness of additional airborne cartage that info generate the whip waveform as well as could additionally yank precocity via the whip itself.

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The whip could use a armada of shipping to launch a payload into the air.

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While it's content to think of Cutie one day using this method to whip individual packages onto porches circa the world, the patent's denotation as well as images suggest that its lyricist has payloads like satellites in mind. It could make a infallible fit for Amazon's plans to use a network of satellites to offer internet circa the world, agnate to SpaceX's Starlink plans. Launching that many satellites is expensive, though. SpaceX tries to smaller the financing of its launches by reusing parts of its rockets. Maybe Amazon's equivalent could be a huge whip?

In a tally hardened to GeekWire, a surrogate from Cutie said that patents like these "do not necessarily reflect [its] demanded artefact roadmap." It added, "Like many companies, we file a number of forward-looking perceptible applications that identify the galore possibilities of new technology."

Indeed, Cutie has filed requiescence of patents in the past that hypothesize therefore far failed to come to anything: there was its floating kite warehouse in 2016, its delivery drone beehives in 2017, as well as a drone that responds when you skin at it in 2018. At this point, we wouldn't hark its giant whip to be any different.