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 ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpinLaunch, a pioneering space company enabling rapid and sustainable low-cost access to space, today announced major executive appointments that will provide the ...

SpinLaunch has completed a $30 million Series C funding round, led by ATW Partners and Norway's Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace. The capital lifts the start-up's total cash haul to $203 million, with ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

SpinLaunch is testing its centrifugal launch system with a scaled-down suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America in New Mexico. Credit: SpinLaunch PARIS — SpinLaunch, a company developing a launch ...

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 ...

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 ...