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This strategic move follows a meeting between Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy's delegation and Uber's leadership team.

Rocket launches are nothing short of spectacular. Whether we grew up in the Apollo era, the space shuttle era or the private space era, most of us can easily bring to mind a rocket launch with the roar of its engines, jets of fire and trails of smoke. As it turns out, the space travel industry, with its several dozen launches per year, is responsible for the same amount of carbon emissions as the global aviation industry.

SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?

This month, the Evil Engineer examines the feasibility of replacing rocket launch vehicles with a space cannon: an idea dating back to Newton.

We are days away from seeing the first instance of a reusable rocket booster plucked out of the sky by a helicopter.

Green Launch says it can fire a space vehicle skywards three times faster than SpinLaunch's kinetic launch system. Its huge hydrogen gas cannon can produce hypersonic launch velocities upwards of Mach 17, enabling orbital altitudes up to 1,000 km.