{"id":225806,"date":"2025-11-25T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/us-longshot-plans-gun-to-launch-satellites-into-orbit"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:04:09","slug":"us-longshot-plans-gun-to-launch-satellites-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/us-longshot-plans-gun-to-launch-satellites-into-orbit","title":{"rendered":"US: Longshot plans gun to launch satellites into orbit"},"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\/1uDVcavx7-w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Longshot, an aerospace technology start-up founded in 2021, is developing a launch system to shoot payloads, such as satellites, into Earth\u2019s low orbit.<\/p>\n<p>This ground-based kinetic launch system, or \u201cspace gun,\u201d aims to reduce the high cost of launching payloads into Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longshot, an aerospace technology start-up founded in 2021, is developing a launch system to shoot payloads, such as satellites, into Earth\u2019s low orbit. This ground-based kinetic launch system, or \u201cspace gun,\u201d 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225806","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}