{"id":92754,"date":"2019-06-27T12:05:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/this-startup-wants-to-use-a-hypersonic-catapult-to-throw-satellites-directly-into-space-by-2022"},"modified":"2019-06-27T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:05:39","slug":"this-startup-wants-to-use-a-hypersonic-catapult-to-throw-satellites-directly-into-space-by-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/this-startup-wants-to-use-a-hypersonic-catapult-to-throw-satellites-directly-into-space-by-2022","title":{"rendered":"This Startup Wants To Use A Hypersonic Catapult To Throw Satellites Directly Into Space By 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-startup-wants-to-use-a-hypersonic-catapult-to-throw-satellites-directly-into-space-by-2022.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A secretive startup has been awarded a launch contract for the U.S. military using a rather novel launch system \u2013 based on kinetic energy technology that would essentially shoot satellites directly into space using a hypersonic vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Last week on Wednesday, June 19, California-based company SpinLaunch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20190619005661\/en\/SpinLaunch-Secures-Contract-Revolutionary-New-Space-Launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20190619005661\/en\/SpinLaunch-Secures-Contract-Revolutionary-New-Space-Launch\">announced<\/a> they had secured a launch contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). They didn\u2019t release any further details, other than noting it was a \u201cresponsive launch prototype contract\u2026 for kinetic energy-based launch services.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A secretive startup has been awarded a launch contract for the U.S. military using a rather novel launch system \u2013 based on kinetic energy technology that would essentially shoot satellites directly into space using a hypersonic vehicle. Last week on Wednesday, June 19, California-based company SpinLaunch announced they had secured a launch contract with the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92754","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}