Gravity's secret - update on that Austrian gravitomagnetism experiment

> Laithwaite wasn't defying gravity. As he swung the
> gyro above his head, it was converting one form of
> potential energy (rotation) into another form of
> potential energy (height) and back again as he swung
> it back down. Basically he was robbing some of the
> energy from the flywheel (slowing its rotation down)
> to lift it and returning it to the flywheel (speeding
> it back up) as he lowered it back down.
>
> This is the same process that causes the moon's orbit
> to increase in radius by about a centimeter per year,
> while simultaneously slowing down the rotation of the
> earth.

Hi Ed,

So wed just need to speed up a high energy, high mass gyro in a spacecraft
(what we could do without fuel, just using energy from the ground
station and later beamed energy)
and launching could be done with less fuel?

Frank