Jun 162018
This Startup Got $40 Million to Build a Space Catapult
SpinLaunch, Inc, wants to build themselves a slingatron. If it works it will accelerate a launch vehicle of some kind to 3,000 miles per hour… at ground level. The aerothermal heating and drag loads should prove impressive, thus the vehicles look like updated Sprint missiles.
Seems strictly inferior to mass drivers and lofstrom launch loop. A waste of money.