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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The record-breaking milestone takes SpinLaunch one step closer to its goal of flinging satellites into space with a gigantic catapult. Reading time 3 minutes SpinLaunch just proved that satellites are ...

The California-based startup SpinLaunchis reimagining how satellites are launched into space. Unlike traditional rockets that rely on fuel and combustion, SpinLaunch uses a kinetic launch system that ...

re: taper, care to do some numbers? I think they claimed up to a 200kg satellite. You can put a lower bound on the fueled mass of the rocket they need to throw, with some fueled rocket stage with ...