Spin Launch

There's been a lot of focus in recent years on private space companies and their quest to develop vehicles that can take paying customers into orbit but the reality is that especially with the pollution that traditional space flight creates these advances won't make a difference to people other than billionaires for quite some time there is however a lesser-known company that's making huge strides at making space technologies far cheaper greener and easier to access it's just that their focus is on satellites and not on human travel known as spin launch the concept is actually rather simple although it is of course extremely complicated to put into practice founded in 2014 and funded by large companies such as airbus and google they are building a kinetic energy launch system to insert satellites into orbit instead of relying on chemical rockets to do this they have designed a vacuum sealed centrifuge that will spin objects around before releasing them into space at speeds of up to 5000 miles per hour and once they reach a sub-orbital height a traditional rocket booster can take over this concept significantly reduces the amount of fuel that needs to be burned and to make it even better all of the energy used to power the centrifuge is derived from green sources such as solar and wind the company has even proved that most traditional satellite components are able to withstand the 10 000 g's that they'll be subjected to during a launch and even projects that it will cost less than half a million dollars to send one into space as opposed to the tens of millions it currently does with the test version already built and conducting launches they hope the full-size device will be ready within a few years this could permanently revolutionize satellite launches.