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World's Largest Slingshot Threw A Spacecraft To Earth!

United StatesPublished September 30, 2026

Views 279K  |  Likes 7.74K  |  Comments 307
Views#5,891,118Global
Views#1,254,662United States

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Scott ManleyScott Manley
1.87M subs•3.06K videos•Jul 2006

This video has 279K views and 7.74K likes, ranking #5,891,118 globally among tracked YouTube videos by view count.

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Views

279,584

Likes

7,746

Comments

307

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Total (all-time): $196 – $559

Based on estimated $0.7–$2 CPM.

About

In 2007 a spacecraft was launched with a special tether experiment named 'YES2' - this was planned to deploy a 30km tether and swing it like a pendulum to return a payload to Earth without using rockets. It holds the record for the longest object ever deployed in space, but, we don't know what happened to the return ca…

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September 30, 2026
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