A new video from SpinLaunch shows you exactly what it looks like to be launched into the Earth's atmosphere at over 1,000 miles per hour. The video is just under a minute long, and it's astonishing to ...

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 ...

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, ...

A California startup wants to put satellites into a circular chamber and whip them around to more than 5,000 miles per hour before letting them burst out, allowing a rocket to fire up its engine only ...

NASA could be flinging its satellites into space using extraordinary 'whirl 'n' hurl' launch technology later this decade. The US space agency has signed an agreement with California startup ...

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 ...

The suborbital flight will help test SpinLaunch's unique kinetic-energy based launch system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA ...

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 ...

Seems like a whole lot could go wrong with the spin launch system. A fraction of a fraction of a second off and the release could be on a totally wrong trajectory. And those spinning forces would rule ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpinLaunch announced today that the company has closed a $71 million Series B funding round. The funds will be used to continue the development and ...