Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Spaceport America in New Mexico is home base for the SpinLaunch Suborbital Accelerator that has spun-up a number of successful test flights.
Image credit: SpinLaunch

Leave behind those rocket fuel tanks that are topped off with propellant on the launch pad. To get into Earth orbit might be just a high-speed spin away.

At Spaceport America in New Mexico a huge centrifuge has been installed and a series of tests have already flung rockets high into Earth’s atmosphere.

Artist’s concept of huge Orbital Launch System as foreseen by SpinLaunch, site location yet to be determined.
Image credit: SpinLaunch

Those experiments are prelude to a major facility capable of pitching satellites into orbit, slingshot-style at high cadence and for low-cost.

SpinLaunch is a group on a trajectory that’s predicated on mastering rebellious rocketry.

For more details on this provocative approach to propulsion, go to my new Multiverse Media Space Ref story – at:

https://spaceref.com/newspace-and-tech/spin-me-up-scotty-have-fling-with-earth-orbit-spinlaunch/