Elon Musk wants to build a satellite catapult on the moon

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Elon Musk has had another bright idea – catapulting satellites from the moon.

Musk told staff at xAI, his start-up that recently merged with his rocket company SpaceX, about his plans to build a lunar AI satellite factory.

The billionaire isn’t quite imagining astronauts wheeling out a wooden, medieval-style catapult – he wants to build a mass driver.

The sci-fi-sounding space launcher, also called an electromagnetic catapult, would create...