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Launcher may handle 10,000 g's, but satellites tend to be kind of fragile
How many oceangates is that? Can we send CEOs in it?
euthanasiacoaster without the extra steps
Satellites have to go through shock and vibe testing based on the vehicle bringing them up, satellites using spinlaunch will need to be built around it.
Youβd be surprised how well modern cubesats are already designed implicitly with high-G components. There was a video about them testing an βoff-the-shelfβ sat from a professor and it held up with only some minor modifications.
10000 g's of centigrugal acceleration for half an hour. I think that alone makes this project a dead end.