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From what I can tell looking at SpinLaunch's website and web search, they were founded in 2014, "launched" a couple projectiles in atmosphere, had a leadership
by ARandomerDude 2y ago
From what I can tell looking at SpinLaunch's website and web search, they were founded in 2014, "launched" a couple projectiles in atmosphere, had a leadership change in 2022, and have been pretty quiet since then.
Unless I've missed something, the headline "Giant catapult sends satellites into space" is not true. To date, they have not put anything into orbit and the company appears to be on life support.
- petee 2y agoFrom what I could find they have only reached 1/10th of the Karman line. I also think its a red flag that they do not have actual press releases or data, just a list of any random website that wrote a story about them.
- Animats 2y agoSpinLaunch built a prototype back in 2022 that can throw stuff up to suborbital altitudes. The big version was supposed to be done by now. They had a lot of trouble finding a launch site. Hawaii didn't like it. Alaska didn't like it. Australia was discussed but nothing happened.[1] This might be useful if there were space stations that needed large, frequent deliveries of fuel, air, and water. [1] https://thespacebucket.com/what-happened-to-spinlaunch-its-plan/ https://thespacebucket.com/what-happened-to-spinlaunch-its-p...
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- uoaei 2y agoI think it's a red flag that a company is so willing to blatantly lie in public-facing communication.
- RobotToaster 2y agoThey'd have got there already if they'd built a space trebuchet instead of a space catapult.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoI think the idea was technically a space trebuchet, but the energy for launch is stored in a flywheel. It's still far too little energy to do anything real.