{"id":191358,"date":"2024-06-17T18:24:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/rocket-company-develops-massive-catapult-to-launch-satellites-into-space-without-using-jet-fuel-10000-times-the-force-of-earths-gravity"},"modified":"2024-06-17T18:24:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T23:24:13","slug":"rocket-company-develops-massive-catapult-to-launch-satellites-into-space-without-using-jet-fuel-10000-times-the-force-of-earths-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/rocket-company-develops-massive-catapult-to-launch-satellites-into-space-without-using-jet-fuel-10000-times-the-force-of-earths-gravity","title":{"rendered":"Rocket company develops massive catapult to launch satellites into space without using jet fuel: \u201810,000 times the force of Earth\u2019s gravity\u2019"},"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\/csFyhYSLwic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpinLaunch was founded in 2014, and its leadership team has since raised tens of millions of dollars in funding. The company has been working with NASA, Airbus, and Cornell University, launching some of their equipment as part of testing. The tech has so far endured 10,000 Gs, \u201c10,000 times the force of Earth\u2019s gravity,\u201d all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spinlaunch-aces-10th-suborbital-test-launch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">per<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p>If SpinLaunch\u2019s concept proves reliable, it could <a href=\"https:\/\/guide.thecooldown.com\/journey\/change-the-way-you-get-around\/r\/recXUBbCMrXEFOz9W\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">eliminate<\/a> the loads of fuel that is burned to launch spacecraft. In 2016, Business Insider noted that SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket used more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-much-fuel-a-rocket-uses-in-elephants-2016-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">900,000 pounds<\/a> of propellant for each liftoff, for reference. The fuel efficiency may have improved some since then.<\/p>\n<p>CBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/newsinteractives.cbc.ca\/features\/2023\/rocket-pollution\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">reports<\/a> that a growing number of launches are starting to draw scrutiny, particularly for ozone layer health. The barrier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/ozone-layer-protection\/basic-ozone-layer-science#:~:text=The%20ozone%20layer%20in%20the, that%20has%20several%20harmful%20effects.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">protects<\/a> us from some of the sun\u2019s harmful radiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpinLaunch was founded in 2014, and its leadership team has since raised tens of millions of dollars in funding. The company has been working with NASA, Airbus, and Cornell University, launching some of their equipment as part of testing. The tech has so far endured 10,000 Gs, \u201c10,000 times the force of Earth\u2019s gravity,\u201d all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1495,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-health","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191358","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\/597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}