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Also: getting up is easy. The hard part is getting fast enough so you don't fall down again. So you still need quite some fuel no matter how high you can throw.
BTW: Spinlaunch knows this of course. They plan to sling a rocket into space to get the payload to orbital speed. Funny that is not mentioned in the article.