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SpinLaunch

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SpinLaunch Inc.
Private
IndustryAerospace
Headquarters4350 E Conant St, 
United States
Key people
  • Jonathan Yaney, CEO
Number of employees
Est. 70-100
Websitewww.spinlaunch.com
Footnotes / references
California Secretary of State[1], Crunchbase[2], Built in LA [3]

SpinLaunch is a spaceflight technology development company working on mass accelerator technology to move payloads to space.[4] As of January 2020, the company has raised US$80 million in funding, with investors including Kleiner PerkinsGoogle VenturesAirbus Ventures, Catapult Ventures, Lauder Partners, John Doerr and Byers Family.[5]

History

SpinLaunch was founded in 2014 by Jonathan Yaney in SunnyvaleCalifornia. The company's current headquarters are in Long Beach, California.[6] In 2020, SpinLaunch continues development of its 140,000 square-foot (13,000 sq. meter) corporate headquarters in Long Beach, and of its flight test facility at Spaceport America in New Mexico (leased in 2019).[7]

Technology

SpinLaunch is developing a kinetic energy space launch system that reduces dependency on traditional chemical rockets, with the goal of significantly lowering the cost of access to space while increasing the frequency of launch. The technology uses a centrifuge to store energy and will then rapidly transfer that energy into a catapult to send a payload to space at up to 4,800 kilometres per hour (3,000 mph). If successful, the acceleration concept is projected to be both lower cost and to use much less power, with the price of a single space launch reduced to under US$500,000.[8] The speed required to maintain Low Earth orbit is 27,000 kilometres per hour (17,000 mph).

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