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 ...

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 ...

SpinLaunch, a startup working on a kinetic space launch system, has successfully completed its first prototype flight. It’s a major milestone for the seven-year-old company as it works toward a test ...

Long Beach-based SpinLaunch nets $11.5 million from stock purchases. Propel: The SpinLaunch suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America in New Mexico. Investors recently bought $11.5 million worth of ...

SpinLaunch aims to change how we get to orbit by shooting payloads skyward from the surface at 5,000 MPH, and now it has a shiny new NASA contract to show off its capability later this year. We've ...

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 ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jonathan Yaney, founder and CEO of SpinLaunch, has announced that the company has been awarded a responsive launch prototype contract from the Department of ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — SpinLaunch, a startup pursuing an alternative approach for placing payloads into orbit, has raised $35 million in a new funding round disclosed Jan. 16. The company, headquartered in Long ...

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 ...