SpinLaunch: Startup uses the

Will this be SpaceX's rival / Elon Musk in the future?

Over the years, SpaceX dominated the space trade industry thanks to SpaceX, which can cut down on the costs of shipments to space. That position is about to be overthrown.

We have another entrepreneur, Mr. Jonathan Yaney , intending to lower the shipping price to the Universe: From tens of millions of dollars to just under $ 500,000. He wanted to use a giant centrifuge to throw goods into orbit . Medieval speaking, he used a catapult.

Maybe SpinLauch will not use rudimentary things to this extent .

. or a little more modern type.

Yaney's startup named SpinLaunch , was established secretly in 2014. The company wants to build a giant centrifuge, toss goods (satellites, supplies for ISS stations, .). up orbit without spending fuel. And yet, it even threw the rocket up into the air, to a certain height, the rocket will continue its journey on its own, thus saving fuel from flying to the ground. high.

"Since the dawn of space exploration, missiles are still the only means for us to go to space , " Laney told TechCrunch. "But in the past 70 years, technology has only achieved very small advances. In order to really commercialize and industrialize space, we need to improve technology ten times this way." .

We take a step by stepping back many steps, we use "catapult" to launch missiles into space.

Before the article was published on TechCrunch, few people knew about the SpinLaunch project. Even the company's website requires users to log in, but the description is also brief that "a startup is flying up quickly".

It is not clear at this point that SpinLaunch has achieved any technological achievements. Yaney said that "mainstream technology has been developed, tested, tested and most of the technology risks have been eliminated". But Yaney did not give any pictures or videos to prove what he said.

Jonathan Yaney.

The main problem now is that they need money to build the centrifuge - the spacecraft .

Currently, SpinLaunch has raised $ 10 million in a five-year period, currently seeking a $ 30 million fundraiser. Last month, a draft was submitted to the Hawaii Senate with the purpose of investing $ 25 million in bonds to help the company build its satellite launch system.

Even if the company achieves the necessary conditions to pursue this project, they still face technological difficulties. For decades, NASA has been looking for accelerated devices to enhance space travel, but no system can be used as a launch pad.

And yet, some physicists at TechCrunch suggest that air resistance will make it difficult for the package to overcome the atmosphere. If everything goes as SpinLaunch says, it is to launch a ship from the height achieved by a centrifuge, then it will be like launching everything into a brick wall: everything will be shattered.

But if they succeed, it is good for the Universe and good for us. Wish them luck with the "rock machine" of the 21st century.