SpinLaunch

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 Perkins, Google Ventures, Airbus Ventures, Catapult Ventures, Lauder Partners, John Doerr and Byers Family.[5]

SpinLaunch Inc.
Private
IndustryAerospace
Headquarters4350 E Conant St,
Long Beach, California
,
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]

History

SpinLaunch was founded in 2014 by Jonathan Yaney in Sunnyvale, California. 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).[9]

See also

References
  1. "Business Search". businesssearch.sos.ca.gov. California Secretary of State. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  2. "Crunchbase SpinLaunch Overview". Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  3. "Built in LA SpinLaunch Overview". Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  4. Oberhaus, Daniel (15 October 2019). "Wired25: Stories of People Who Are Racing to Save Us". Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  5. Chowdhry, Amit (20 January 2020). "SpinLaunch Raises $35 Million for the First Kinetic Launch System". Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  6. Malik, Tariq (19 June 2019). "Secretive Startup SpinLaunch Gets 1st Launch Contract for US Military". “Space.com”. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  7. Wall, Mike (16 January 2020). "Stealth Space Startup SpinLaunch Snares Another $35 Million From Investors". Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  8. Constine, Josh (22 February 2018). "Stealth space catapult startup SpinLaunch is raising $30M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  9. "LEO parameters". www.spaceacademy.net.au. Retrieved 24 April 2019.

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