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NASA is planning to test an unconventional system later this year for launching small objects to low Earth orbit. It aims to make space launches more affordable and environmentally friendly.

The Long Beach-based company that made waves last year with the truly groundbreaking concept of a giant centrifugal slingshot that can launch things into...

SpinLaunch, the developer of a ground-based, electric-powered, kinetic launch system, has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA. Through this partnership, SpinLaunch will develop, integrate, and fly a NASA payload on the company’s Suborbital Accelerator Launch System to provide valuable information to NASA for potential future commercial launch opportunities. SpinLaunch...

NASA has signed on to send a payload up using a suborbital, kinetic-energy based system developed by California-based company SpinLaunch.

Skepticism aside, bluShift Aerospace is poised to take our reputation for Yankee ingenuity to new heights.

Skepticism aside, bluShift Aerospace is poised to take our reputation for Yankee ingenuity to new heights.

BluShift Aerospace CEO Sascha Deri said the test 'was exactly what we were hoping for.'

The test was the first of a series that’s expected to culminate later this year in the launch of full-sized commercial rocket, powered by a bio-derived fuel, into low-Earth orbit.

BluShift Aerospace CEO Sascha Deri said the test 'was exactly what we were hoping for.'

BluShift Aerospace CEO Sascha Deri said the test 'was exactly what we were hoping for.'