According to SpinLaunch the spin-up is so gradual there isn't a lot of sudden stress (like dropping a phone, for instance) and electronics don't really have a problem with it. I can see that the ...

Welcome to Edition 7.22 of the Rocket Report! The big news is the Trump administration’s announcement that commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman would be put forward as the nominee to serve as the next ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA has agreed to test a new way of getting things into space—by ...

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, ...

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 ...

For more than half a century we've been sending vehicles and humans into space with the help of rockets, but what if there was another way? Startup SpinLaunch has been exploring such possibilities ...

NASA has agreed to test startup SpinLaunch's kinetic launcher, a giant circular accelerator that aims to shoot 200 kilogram satellites into space. The California-based SpinLaunch's launcher is located ...