Okay, this is wild.
During the late September test out of the Spaceport America base located in New Mexico's Jornada del Muerto desert, the startup'slaunched a capsule containing five payloads, including a camera, tens of thousands of feet into the sky — a demonstration that helps illustrate the ways "alternative" launch technology, such as the mass accelerator's rapidly-rotating arm, may be able to hurl satellites and other objects into low earth orbit or beyond.
Indeed, during both pre-flight tests and in the demonstration's aftermath, the customer payloads survived intact, SpinLaunch's press release notes. Though the company's technology is obviously not ready to launch larger payloads or send smaller satellites further out than the 25,000 feet it's achieved so far, SpinLaunch has stillWhile SpinLaunch has ruled out any
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