SpaceRef

SpinLaunch Completes Milestone Flight Test 10

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, ...
New Atlas

Satellite-flinging SpinLaunch puts NASA payload through the wringer

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 ...
New Atlas

New video gives first-person view of what it's like to be SpinLaunched

SpinLaunch has released on-board footage from its eighth suborbital flight test, giving us a unique opportunity to imagine what it'd be like to be hurled skyward out of a centrifugal accelerator at ...
CNN

Watch a space startup spin a projectile into the sky at more than 1,000 miles per hour

SpinLaunch, an ambitious startup that hopes to spin, rather than launch, satellites into orbit, released dizzying footage of a test flight that the company conducted out of New Mexico. The test flight ...
KARE 11

Reach space with no rockets? NASA agrees to test flight with new launch system

NASA has reached a partnership with a company to test launch a payload to suborbital space at high speed from a centrifuge-like device that requires no rocket propulsion. The ultimate goal: to ...