What are the speed limits of a maglev track?

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What are the speed limits of a maglev track? If say, you wanted to use them to launch craft into space? Or indeed if you wanted to send segments of maglev track to say the moon and mars? would building it longer hep with the magnetic friction and speeds?
What are the speed limits of a maglev track? If say, you wanted to use them to launch craft into space? Or indeed if you wanted to send segments of maglev track to say the moon and mars?
 

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