Longshot, an aerospace technology start-up founded in 2021, is developing a launch system to shoot payloads, such as satellites, into Earth’s low orbit.

This ground-based kinetic launch system, or “space gun,” aims to reduce the high cost of launching payloads into Earth orbit.

Earlier, the US-based company announced it had leased a former U.S. Navy indoor cannon testing facility at Alameda Point from the City of Alameda.