SpinLaunch is building the world’s lowest cost space launch system capable of placing small satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). It employs ground-based kinetic energy to first accelerate a vehicle to hypersonic speeds, launching it on a hypersonic glide ascent out of the atmosphere prior to orbital insertion. While incremental gains have been made in rocket technologies to reduce space launch costs, alternative approaches are necessary to reduce those costs and increase launch rates by the orders of magnitude necessary to facilitate exponential growth in the space transportation industry. Since the beginning of the space program, ground-based non-rocket launch systems such as rail guns and ram accelerators have been proposed to achieve this goal, however all have employed unproven technologies with cost-prohibitive initial capital investment.
SpinLaunch utilizes existing technology and components from oil/gas/mining and wind turbine industries to construct an innovative circula...
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