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SpinLaunch conducts first test of suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America

SpinLaunch's suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America fired its first projectile in an Oct. 22 test. Credit: SpinLaunch WASHINGTON — SpinLaunch, a company developing an alternative launch system ...
Gizmodo

Dizzying Video Shows What It’s Like to Get Shot Out of a Centrifuge at 1,000 MPH

SpinLaunch is striving to build a scaled-up version of its "kinetic launch system"—one capable of hurling objects into space. Reading time 2 minutes California startup SpinLaunch recently performed ...
BGR

NASA Will Test SpinLaunch's Suborbital Accelerator That Flings Satellites Into Orbit

One of the most exciting things about NASA signing on to test SpinLaunch's system is the number of possibilities that it unlocks for getting more satellites to space. Currently, getting new spacecraft ...
Gizmodo

NASA Will Test Gigantic Centrifuge for Hurling Objects Into Space

NASA is planning to test an unconventional system for launching small objects to low Earth orbit. The system, which uses intense centrifugal force and a final propulsion stage, aims to make launches ...
BGR

Watch NASA Send A Payload Hurtling Into Space With A Giant Slingshot

We already got to see what it looks like when SpinLaunch literally throws something into the atmosphere at over 1,000 miles per hour. Now, though, the tenth test of the Suborbital Accelerator the ...
SpaceNews

SpinLaunch and NASA Sign Space Act Agreement to Test Innovative Mass Accelerator Launch System

SpinLaunch has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA. Through this partnership, SpinLaunch will develop, integrate, and fly a NASA payload on the company’s Suborbital Accelerator Launch System to ...
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Rocket Lab's modified Electron rocket HASTE achieves first suborbital launch

Rocket Lab's new suborbital launch vehicle— Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) — successfully completed a test flight on Saturday, June. 17. The Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital ...
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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 ...
Yahoo

Rocket Lab adds a suborbital launch option aimed at hypersonic defense customers

Rocket Lab is adding a new offering to its suite of services: hypersonic suborbital launches. The new service will be available starting sometime in the first half of this year, when the company will ...

This next Virginia rocket launch will reach 5 times the speed of sound

Rocket Lab appears to be planning the June 11 launch of its hypersonic HASTE spacecraft on a secretive government mission ...
Inverse

New technology would literally throw satellites into orbit

For today’s commercial space companies providing launch services to orbit, the name of the game is simple: “Do it cheaper.” To reduce the costs of launching payloads to space and encourage the ...