SpinLaunch, a California-based start-up developing a rotating arm that can fling small satellites into near-Earth space has pulled off its 10th successful test launch in less than a year. SpinLaunch's ...

Launching spacecraft requires huge amounts of fuel just to escape Earth’s gravity, with the propellants alone representing as much as 90% of a rocket’s weight—making flights expensive, risky and a ...

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, ...

In an era where innovation continually breaks the mold, a California-based company, SpinLaunch, is making waves in the space industry. They are challenging the status quo by replacing the conventional ...

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 ...

Outside of several mentions in the Rocket Report newsletter dating back to 2018, Ars Technica has not devoted too much attention to covering a novel California space company named SpinLaunch. That’s ...

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Last summer, a secretive space company took up residence in a massive warehouse in the sun-soaked industrial neighborhood that surrounds Long Beach Airport. Reflections of turboprop planes flit across ...

NASA has agreed to test a new way of getting things into space—by spinning them really fast and throwing them straight up from the ground. The launch method might sound cartoonish, but it is a very ...

SpinLaunch plans to develop a broadband constellation called Meridian Space using satellites built by Kongsberg NanoAvionics. Credit: SpinLaunch WASHINGTON — SpinLaunch, the company best known for ...

For more than half a century we've been sending vehicles and humans into space with the help of rockets, but what if there was another way? Startup SpinLaunch has been exploring such possibilities ...