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The cost of the satellite, payload, and launcher is defined by SpinLaunch.
The cost of SpinLaunch’s space infrastructure is significantly cheaper than competitors.
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.
SpinLaunch's launcher has been successfully demonstrated ten times.
Massimiliano Ladovaz joined SpinLaunch as CEO in the summer of 2023.
SpinLaunch recently completed a design review for the first customer link satellite, planned to fly in October 2026.
SpinLaunch's first system is going to operate in Ka-band and has spectrum filings in Ku-, Q-, and V-band.
SpinLaunch aims for its solution to support native 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) connectivity.
The gateway for SpinLaunch's system can potentially be deployed on the roof of a data center.
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.
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.
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 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.
SpinLaunch was founded by Jonathan Yaney in 2014 to develop a ground-based kinetic launch system.
SpinLaunch is based in Long Beach, California and has built its Suborbital Mass Accelerator at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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.
SpinLaunch raised $71,000,000 in a Series B funding round led by ATW Partners on 2022-09-20.