US Centrifuge to Throw Satellites into Orbit – New Scientist

 

As the US and China compete in a furious space race, a New Mexico company believes it can out-throw its competitors, according to a New Scientist report. SpinLaunch plans to use a giant centrifuge taller than the Statue of Liberty to fling satellites into space.

Its suborbital accelerator, a colossal centrifuge facility, looks like a flying saucer on its side, the UK popular science weekly said, its reporter adding: “It seems like a wild idea, but it just might work, as I saw when I watched the company’s ninth test flight.”

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