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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The cost of SpinLaunch’s space infrastructure is significantly cheaper than competitors.
SpinLaunch's launcher has been successfully demonstrated ten times.
SpinLaunch aims for its solution to support native 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) connectivity.
SpinLaunch's first system is going to operate in Ka-band and has spectrum filings in Ku-, Q-, and V-band.
The cost of SpinLaunch's launcher is a fraction of traditional launchers.
SpinLaunch has secured the satellite bus contract with Kongsberg.
The next step for SpinLaunch is to fund a bigger orbital accelerator with revenues from Meridian Space.
SpinLaunch recently completed a design review for the first customer link satellite, planned to fly in October 2026.
The deployment ground segment for SpinLaunch's system can be compact, requiring only 1,000 square feet for a gateway.
SpinLaunch is collaborating with Kongsberg NanoAvionics on the Meridian Space constellation.
In the last year, SpinLaunch created a new product line of small satellite buses in the 20 kg to 200 kg size class.
SpinLaunch’s $71,000,000 Series B round, announced 2022-09-20, included a mix of debt and equity.
SpinLaunch is based in Long Beach, California and has built its Suborbital Mass Accelerator at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
NASA provided a Data Acquisition Unit (DAQ) equipped with two accelerometers, a gyroscope, a magnetometer, and sensors for pressure, temperature, and humidity to capture launch characteristics of SpinLaunch’s kinetic launch system.
SpinLaunch and Airbus U.S. plan to work together to qualify a variety of Airbus U.S. satellite systems for compatibility with the SpinLaunch orbital centrifuge and flight environment.
Cornell Engineering’s Space Systems Design Studio developed ChipSats and Flight Test 10 exercised a SpinLaunch-designed payload deployment system that released multiple ChipSats from the Flight Test Vehicle.
SpinLaunch is targeting the ability to place satellites into orbit and deliver payloads by 2026.
Airbus’s sun sensor was tested to 10 kg in SpinLaunch’s 12-meter Lab Accelerator prior to integration with the flight test vehicle.
SpinLaunch was founded by Jonathan Yaney in 2014 to develop a ground-based kinetic launch system.
SpinLaunch raised $71,000,000 in a Series B funding round led by ATW Partners on 2022-09-20.