NASA has signed up to test SpinLaunch's extraordinary whirl 'n' hurl space launch technology, which accelerates a launch vehicle to hypersonic speeds using an electric centrifuge instead of a rocket, ...

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 ...

SpinLaunch, a company that aims to turn the launch industry on its head with a wild new concept for getting to orbit, has raised a $35M round to continue its quest. The team has yet to demonstrate ...

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SpinLaunch demonstrated a suborbital accelerator but never proved that satellites could survive the extreme acceleration, drag and release conditions required for an orbital system. Scaling costs, ...

Space startup SpinLaunch is fundraising again, though a source tells TechCrunch that it was exploring raising a significantly more ambitious sum earlier this year. The company has closed an $11.5 ...

NASA has agreed to test startup SpinLaunch's kinetic launcher, a giant circular accelerator that aims to shoot 200 kilogram satellites into space. The California-based SpinLaunch's launcher is located ...

The secretive startup SpinLaunch, which aims to fling satellites into space without a traditional launch pad, has just secured its first launch contract. In a statement today (June 19), SpinLaunch ...

What if instead of blasting cargo into space on a rocket, we could fling it into space using a catapult? That’s the big, possibly crazy, possibly genius idea behind SpinLaunch. It was secretly founded ...

NASA to fly payload with SpinLaunch’s mass accelerator to test launch characteristics of its low cost, high cadence launch system LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpinLaunch has signed a Space Act ...