SpinLaunch has won an order to launch an initial 280 small satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO). The scheme is called Meridian Space and is backed by Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace and valued at €122.5 million. SpinLaunch, headquartered in Long Beach, California, but launches using its own technology from a site in the Mojave Desert. […]

SpinLaunch, a company that wants to launch satellites using a giant centrifuge (an ‘orbital accelerator’), has announced that it has raised some $71 million in Series B funding. SpinLaunch’s new cash comes in a funding round led by ATW Partners. SpinLaunch is currently based at Long Beach, California. The new cash means that the company […]