Rocket Lab's new suborbital launch vehicle— Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) — successfully completed a test flight on Saturday, June. 17. The Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital ...

SpinLaunch is striving to build a scaled-up version of its "kinetic launch system"—one capable of hurling objects into space. Reading time 2 minutes California startup SpinLaunch recently performed ...

One of the most exciting things about NASA signing on to test SpinLaunch's system is the number of possibilities that it unlocks for getting more satellites to space. Currently, getting new spacecraft ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (WAVY) – Rocket Lab has announced their new suborbital testbed launch vehicle. According to a press release, the new rocket, named HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test ...

NASA has reached a partnership with a company to test launch a payload to suborbital space at high speed from a centrifuge-like device that requires no rocket propulsion. The ultimate goal: to ...

SpaceX launched a fully stacked Starship for the first time on Thursday morning, with the vehicle passing through Max Q and flying for around three minutes. Let me be clear: This was a remarkable ...

A suborbital version of Rocket Lab's Electron rocket launched for the first time June 17, demonstrating its utility to support hypersonic testing. (NASA/Patrick Black) WASHINGTON — A U.S. Defense ...

NASA is planning to test an unconventional system for launching small objects to low Earth orbit. The system, which uses intense centrifugal force and a final propulsion stage, aims to make launches ...

SpinLaunch has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA. Through this partnership, SpinLaunch will develop, integrate, and fly a NASA payload on the company’s Suborbital Accelerator Launch System to ...

Long Beach-based SpinLaunch nets $11.5 million from stock purchases. Propel: The SpinLaunch suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America in New Mexico. Investors recently bought $11.5 million worth of ...

NASA to fly payload with SpinLaunch’s mass accelerator to test launch characteristics of its low cost, high cadence launch system LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpinLaunch has signed a Space Act ...