The space company aims to remove 70% of fuel and launch infrastructure requirements.
Both companies' systems get payloads up as high as a traditional first-stage rocket for a fraction of the price and with a greatly reduced environmental impact. Both use only a small amount of rocket propellant to propel their launch vehicle to its final orbital destination.a NASA Space Act Agreement contract only last month, and the company says its system will remove 70 percent of fuel and launch infrastructure requirements.
NASA payload as part of a developmental flight test later this year, after which it will recover the payload for analysis.In its new video, SpinLaunch shows off the launch of one of a series of recent test launches, its first optical payload. The test vehicle, which measures 3 meters long , was launched on April 22 at a speed of over 1,000 mph.
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