Collaborate Disseminate
At this week’s DSEI Defence exhibition in London, SpearUAV unveiled its Multi Canister Launcher (MCL) Viper system, which is bolted onto the outside of conventional and robotic military vehicles to launch Viper drones without exposing soldiers to harm…. Continue reading MCL Viper system gives military vehicles multi-drone launch capacity
Rockets are expensive, so a number of kinetic launch startups are working on ways to simply yeet payloads into orbit and bring costs down. This one’s very fun – a six-mile long concrete cannon that’ll squeeze launch vehicles to Mach 30 in one second.Co… Continue reading Longshot targets $10/kg launch costs with Nazi uber-cannon on steroids
Rockets are expensive, complex, bad for the environment and prone to occasionally exploding – so alternative launch technologies are popping up to reduce their use. We wrote about SpinLaunch’s remarkable kinetic launch system earlier this week, which s… Continue reading Hypersonic space cannon promises 10 minutes from ground to orbit
NASA has signed up to test SpinLaunch’s extraordinary whirl ‘n’ hurl space launch technology, which accelerates a launch vehicle to hypersonic speeds using an electric centrifuge instead of a rocket, hurling it skyward like a space discus.Continue Read… Continue reading NASA will test SpinLaunch’s ability to fling satellites into orbit
For more than half a century we’ve been sending vehicles and humans into space with the help of rockets, but what if there was another way? Startup SpinLaunch has been exploring such possibilities through the development of what it calls the world’s fi… Continue reading SpinLaunch’s rocket-free kinetic launch system conducts first test flight
Virgin Orbit continues to edge closer to its objective of firing satellites into space form an airborne 747, this time completing an end-to-end launch rehearsal designed to put all of its systems through their paces. This major test will be the company… Continue reading Virgin Orbit puts its 747 “flying launchpad” through a full rehearsal