{"id":130306,"date":"2021-11-09T16:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T00:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/alternative-rocket-builder-spinlaunch-completes-first-test-flight"},"modified":"2021-11-09T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T00:22:20","slug":"alternative-rocket-builder-spinlaunch-completes-first-test-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/alternative-rocket-builder-spinlaunch-completes-first-test-flight","title":{"rendered":"Alternative rocket builder SpinLaunch completes first test flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alternative-rocket-builder-spinlaunch-completes-first-test-flight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpinLaunch, a start-up that is building an alternative method of launching spacecraft to orbit, conducted last month a successful first test flight of a prototype in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach, California-based company is developing a launch system that uses kinetic energy as its primary method to get off the ground \u2013 with a vacuum-sealed centrifuge spinning the rocket at several times the speed of sound before releasing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a radically different way to accelerate projectiles and launch vehicles to hypersonic speeds using a ground-based system,\u201d SpinLaunch CEO Jonathan Yaney told CNBC. \u201cThis is about building a company and a space launch system that is going to enter into the commercial markets with a very high cadence and launch at the lowest cost in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpinLaunch, a start-up that is building an alternative method of launching spacecraft to orbit, conducted last month a successful first test flight of a prototype in New Mexico. The Long Beach, California-based company is developing a launch system that uses kinetic energy as its primary method to get off the ground \u2013 with a vacuum-sealed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}