Currently, rocket propulsion has serious drawbacks. A very large, heavy and expendable rocket is required in order to put even a single person into space, and the rocket must use powerful and complicated engines in order to lift the entire rocket's mass. These rockets are also very dangerous, their basic function to be slowly-exploding rockets, with the potential for these explosions to become much more sudden and lethal.

In contrast, a trebuchet uses no fuel, only harnessing gravitational force to fling an object proportional to the trebuchet's design into orbit. There are no explosive chemicals involved, no large expendable rocket segments; all that is actually needed to be built for each launch is a single projectile/capsule.

And it is with this efficiency in mind that we intend to construct and build the largest trebuchet in human history. Once this massive yet simple device is constructed, it will allow for supplies and even astronauts to be simply flung into orbit, and each launch makes the overall construction costs cheaper. It is with this goal in mind that we present our creation: