The rise of SpinLaunch, the company planning to hurl things into space

Within the desert of New Mexico, a centrifuge taller than the Statue of Liberty is being examined as an energy-efficient method to ship satellites to house

By Leah Crane

Bumping alongside a dust observe in New Mexico, one thing alien rises above the expanse of brush. It appears like a flying saucer on its facet, an enormous circle 4 metres taller than the Statue of Liberty. That is SpinLaunch’s suborbital accelerator, a colossal centrifuge constructed to observe throwing satellites into house. It looks like a wild concept, however it simply would possibly work, as I noticed once I watched the corporate’s ninth take a look at flight.

SpinLaunch began in California in 2014 with the aim …