SpinLaunch, founded in 2014, is a spaceflight technology development company pioneering a kinetic energy launch system. Rather than using traditional chemical rockets, SpinLaunch is developing a mass accelerator technology with the aim of significantly lowering the cost and increasing the frequency of launching small satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The company is building a ground-based, electric-powered centrifuge accelerator to propel payloads into orbit and has partnered with organizations like NASA, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, Sumitomo Corporation, and The Aleut Corporation. SpinLaunch is also developing its own satellite constellation called Meridian Space.
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SpinLaunch plans to work with Equinix to support the ground infrastructure for its Meridian constellation.
SpinLaunch plans to use Equinix’s Platform Equinix and more than 280 interconnected data centers for Meridian Space ground operations.
SpinLaunch completed a design review for its first customer link satellite, which is scheduled to fly in October 2026.
SpinLaunch plans to deploy a cloud-integrated ground-station-as-a-service model for its Meridian Space LEO broadband network.
SpinLaunch said its constellation concept is intended to be a much lower-cost model than typical constellations.
SpinLaunch unveiled the Meridian Space constellation in April 2025 through a €122.5 million contract with Kongsberg NanoAvionics to produce the first 280 satellites.
A contract valued at €122.5 million (≈$141.7 million) was awarded to Kongsberg NanoAvionics to build 280 satellites for the SpinLaunch Meridian Space communications constellation.
NanoAvionics will develop and serially produce 280 satellites for the SpinLaunch Meridian Space constellation.
SpinLaunch has been developing its broadband constellation architecture and advanced antenna technology since 2020.
SpinLaunch has also been developing its low-cost, high-cadence kinetic launch system since 2020.
NanoAvionics and SpinLaunch will develop a tailored satellite optimized for higher performance and launch efficiency.
The SpinLaunch and NanoAvionics partnership includes two prototypes, one of which is an in-orbit demonstrator mission planned for 2026.
Spinlaunch has unveiled Meridian Defense, a proliferated low Earth orbit satellite constellation with integrated inter-satellite links.
SpinLaunch is engaging with government and defense stakeholders globally to define deployment models and mission profiles for Meridian Defense.
Meridian Defense is built on SpinLaunch’s Meridian constellation and uses the same advances in satellite design, orbital architecture, and system efficiency.
Massimiliano Ladovaz is CEO of SpinLaunch.
SpinLaunch is the developer of the Meridian constellation, a low-cost LEO system with sovereign-capability objectives.
The cooperation between CanarySat and SpinLaunch will enable establishment of secure interconnection (peering) architectures under federated operational frameworks.
CanarySat and SpinLaunch signed a strategic interoperability agreement at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to enable technical and commercial cooperation between their independent LEO constellations.
CanarySat and SpinLaunch committed to advanced cybersecurity protections including end-to-end encryption and independent operational control.