{"id":130541,"date":"2021-11-13T10:43:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/space-startup-wants-to-sling-satellites-into-orbit-with-a-huge-centrifuge"},"modified":"2021-11-13T10:43:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:43:26","slug":"space-startup-wants-to-sling-satellites-into-orbit-with-a-huge-centrifuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/space-startup-wants-to-sling-satellites-into-orbit-with-a-huge-centrifuge","title":{"rendered":"Space startup wants to sling satellites into orbit with a huge centrifuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uijOLog1N6Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell: In the 21st century, there\u2019s a new space race, primarily between Tesla (SpaceX) and Amazon (Blue Origin). Both are concentrating on traditional methods of launching satellites into space\u2014namely, big rockets. However, a small space startup called SpinLaunch is developing a cheaper and environmentally cleaner way of launching satellites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinlaunch.com\/\">SpinLaunch<\/a> is using a gigantic centrifuge to shoot stuff into space. By \u201cstuff,\u201d we mean things that can withstand the G-force created by being spun at 5,000 miles per hour (over 10,000 Gs), which is a category of stuff that does not yet include satellites. However, it did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinlaunch.com\/suborbital\">launch<\/a> a missile-like projectile tens of thousands of feet into the air last month, using only 20 percent of the accelerator\u2019s power.<\/p>\n<p>The design is relatively simple. A carbon fiber tether holds the projectile inside a span vacuum chamber as it spins up to speed. Once the centrifuge has reached the desired velocity, the launch vehicle is released out a tube taller than the Statue of Liberty (50.4 meters). It is not unlike launching your friends off the merry-go-round when you were a kid. A more mature and controlled application of the principle would be the hammer throw event in the Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a nutshell: In the 21st century, there\u2019s a new space race, primarily between Tesla (SpaceX) and Amazon (Blue Origin). Both are concentrating on traditional methods of launching satellites into space\u2014namely, big rockets. However, a small space startup called SpinLaunch is developing a cheaper and environmentally cleaner way of launching satellites. SpinLaunch is using a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130541","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}