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<ul><li>Space startup <keyword id="12510760" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="spinlaunch" source="Orion">SpinLaunch</keyword> has been working on a new and more sustainable way of launching rockets.</li><li>It tested its first prototype last month and plans to conduct more tests for the final product.</li><li>The <keyword id="12510761" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="suborbital-accelerator" source="Orion">suborbital accelerator</keyword> uses kinetic energy to launch rockets instead of the traditional fuel-based system.</li></ul>Space startup SpinLaunch has developed a prototype of a very unique and different kind of launchpad to shoot rockets into orbit. It’s a <a href="https://www.spinlaunch.com/suborbital#p1" data-type="tilCustomLink">suborbital accelerator</a> that’s even taller than the Statue of Liberty and looks like a giant-sized rolling tape. What happens inside is electric-powered kinetic energy spinning the rocket and flinging it up to orbit. This will be different from the traditional way of launching fuel-based rockets vertically, and it’s also said to be a less expensive and environmentally sustainable alternative, according to SpinLaunch. The company successfully demonstrated its first prototype of its suborbital accelerator last month near Spaceport America in New Mexico. How does it work The suborbital accelerator features the largest span vacuum chamber inside which there’s a massive rotating arm that uses kinetic energy to spin the rocket several times the speed of sound and then lets go of it so the projectile is flung into the air, according to a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/09/spinlaunch-completes-first-test-flight-of-alternative-rocket.html">report</a> by CNBC. At its first launch, SpinLaunch said the suborbital accelerator successfully propelled a test vehicle at supersonic speeds. This prototype used only around 20% of the accelerator’s power and touched an altitude of tens of thousands of feet, the report added. Only a testbed The suborbital accelerator is only a test-bed for the final product, the <keyword id="12510763" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="orbital-launch-system" source="Orion">Orbital Launch System</keyword>. The company plans on conducting regular test flights with a variety of vehicles and different launch vehicles throughout 2022. It plans to conduct around 30 suborbital test flights from Spaceport America. As for the final Orbital Launch System, it is still in the works and there’s no confirmed launch timeline for it yet. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/samsung-galaxy-s22-series-launch-date-specifications-and-everything-you-need-to-know/articleshow/87643657.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Samsung Galaxy S22 series: launch date, specifications and everything you need to know</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/disney-ceo-bob-chapek-confirms-the-company-will-build-its-own-metaverse/articleshow/87641073.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">After Facebook, Disney wants to build its own metaverse</a>

This space startup wants to slingshot rockets into orbit

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Artist's impression of StarTram Generation 2 launch system.An artist's conception of the StarTram launch system.</div></div></div><ul><li>Spinlaunch has raised $40 million to develop a catapult to launch small and medium-sized payloads into orbit.</li><li>The company wants to use kinetic energy, sourced from ground-based electricity, for its launch system.</li><li>It's an idea that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/jeff-bezos">Jeff Bezos</a> entertained during the early days of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/blue-origin">Blue Origin</a>, though he had dismissed it as having "practical problems." </li></ul>A Silicon Valley startup wants to catapult rockets into space - and it's raised $40 million to do it.Heavyweight investors like GV (Google's venture fund), Airbus Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins all contributed to Spinlaunch's $35 million series A- announced last week - bringing the total amount the startup has raised to $40 million.But <a href="https://newatlas.com/startram-maglev-to-leo/21700/">the idea </a>at the center of the company's value proposition - using kinetic energy to whip small satellites and rockets into orbit - is one that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/jeff-bezos">Jeff Bezos</a>, the centi-billionaire Amazon CEO and founder of private space company <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/blue-origin">Blue Origin</a>, said had "all sorts of practical problems."The Bezos criticism comes from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Space-Barons-Bezos-Colonize-Cosmos/dp/1610398297">"Space Barons,"</a> a new book from Washington Post reporter Christian Davenport. The book chronicles the early days of the rivalry between Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Bezos in the race to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/private-space-station-hotels-robert-bigelow-2018-2">privatize spaceflight</a>."It's the kind of thing you could dispose of as a credible idea in a few hours of analysis," Bezos said, according to Davenport. "So far as we know, nobody had ever considered that."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">SpinlaunchSpinlaunch's website.</div></div></div>Spinlaunch said it hopes to achieve its first launch in just four years, and that it's in talks with four states to develop launch sites. Spinlaunch's technology is based on the law of conservation of momentum. Similar to cracking a whip, Spinlaunch plans to use kinetic energy to get a small rocket spinning in a circle up to 5,000 miles per hour, where it will then be flung into orbit.It'll use regular old electricity, rather than rocket fuel, to power the catapult and shoot a payload to hypersonic speeds - that is, five times the speed of sound. However, some payloads may need a supplemental rocket motor to get into space, according to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/spinlaunch-2/">TechCrunch</a>. Either way, it could be a far cheaper way to efficiently deliver stuff to space."SpinLaunch is reimagining space launch by revisiting fundamental physics and leveraging proven industrial technologies to create a system that accelerates the launch vehicle to hypersonic speeds using ground-based electricity," the company's CEO, Jonathan Yaney said in a statement. "Applying the initial performance boost from a terrestrial-based launch platform enables us to lower the cost by orders of magnitude and launch many times per day."Investors are bullish on the idea."SpinLaunch has the potential to be highly disruptive for launching small and medium-sized payloads, and is uniquely positioned against traditional rocket-based methods for space launch," GV Partner Shaun Maguire said in a statement.Wen Hsieh, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, said in a statement that he was most intrigued by Spinlaunch's ability to be "powered by renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, thereby eliminating the use of toxic and dangerous rocket fuels."Spinlaunch's system is part of a push to develop innovative technology to deliver payloads to space. Another proposal, called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTram">StarTram</a>, is a maglev launch system that uses frictionless magnets to launch rockets off of a raised platform.While information about Spinlaunch is hard to come by - their <a href="http://spinlaunch.com/">website</a> has scant details, and we don't yet know what the catapult will look like - it's a potentially exciting frontier in the private space race. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/world-running-out-sand-resources-concrete-2018-6">The world is running out of sand - and there's a black market for it now</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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