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\nSpinLaunch and Crew<\/p>\n

SpinLaunch, a start-up that is building an alternative method of launching spacecraft to orbit, conducted a successful first flight test last month in New Mexico.<\/p>\n

The Long Beach, California-based company is developing a launch system that uses kinetic energy as its primary method to reach the required velocities \u2013 with a vacuum-sealed centrifuge spinning at super sonic speeds before releasing a rocket.<\/p>\n

Poetrooper sends.<\/p>\n

Space Launch Start-Up Just Used A Giant Centrifuge To Fling A Projectile Into The Upper Atmosphere<\/h3>\n

SpinLaunch plans to use its kinetic launch system to put small satellites into orbit rapidly and cheaply, and the Pentagon is interested.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

BY THOMAS NEWDICK AND TYLER ROGOWAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

A U.S. space launch start-up has, for the first time, demonstrated a kinetic-based system that\u2019s intended one day to put small spacecraft into orbit. The SpinLaunch concept, which feels ripped right from the classic age of science fiction, is based around a vacuum-sealed centrifuge that spins an unpowered projectile at several times the speed of sound before releasing it, hurling it into the upper atmosphere, and ultimately into orbit. In this way, the company, based in Long Beach, Calif., hopes to challenge traditional rockets for putting payloads into space.<\/p>\n

The first test flight of a prototype \u2014 a so-called suborbital accelerator \u2014 took place at Spaceport America in New Mexico on October 22, but the company only announced the milestone yesterday.<\/p>\n

The system uses a vacuum chamber within which a rotating arm brings a projectile up to very high speed without any drag penalty, before hurling it into the atmosphere \u201cin less than a millisecond,\u201d according to the company, as a port opens for a fraction of a second to release the projectile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’ll be interesting to see how far they get, right SpaceX?
\nThanks, Poe.<\/p>\n