SpinLaunch today announced the results of its tenth successful Flight Test of its Suborbital Accelerator from Spaceport America, New Mexico. The flight test, which occurred on September 27, 2022, ...

In a groundbreaking demonstration, SpinLaunch tested an off-the-shelf satellite with a few ruggedized components. The satellite was spun at an astonishing 10,000Gs in a lab environment, a level of ...

Startup SpinLaunch is working on an alternative way of firing things into space that doesn’t involve first-stage rockets, but instead a launch system that spins payloads around in a centrifuge and ...

It was back in February of this year when an up-and-coming company called SpinLaunch caught our attention and prompted us to look more intently into the product they offer: a massive slingshot that ...

The record-breaking milestone takes SpinLaunch one step closer to its goal of flinging satellites into space with a gigantic catapult. Reading time 3 minutes SpinLaunch just proved that satellites are ...

If you want to go to space anytime soon, you’re going to need a massive rocket. Since Sputnik, it has remained standard to blast a highly expensive metal tube off Earth with the help of a controlled ...

NASA may soon be slingshotting its satellites into low-Earth orbit, thanks to its newly-tested partnership with a startup working on a giant centrifuge for that very purpose. In a press release, the ...

SpinLaunch’s technique for sending payload to orbit, which uses centrifugal force to fling mass to space, has solicited its fair share of skeptics. But at least some of those skeptics are likely a ...

A giant slingshot might sound like something out of a science fair or a medieval battle—but one California startup is turning this idea into a revolutionary way to launch satellites. This system doesn ...

SpinLaunch will use the influx of cash to further develop a “kinetic launch system” capable of flinging objects into orbit. reading time 2 minutes SpinLaunch said on Tuesday that it raised $71 million ...

Remember when you were a kid on the playground trying to swing high enough to shoot yourself to the Moon? Although that might have been an impossible goal, the company SpinLaunch is taking the idea of ...