April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
... the distance to LEO. Its approach is based on a catapult not at all dissimilar (at least in principle) to the ...way from orbital velocity, the potential to transform the economics of space travel remains. About the author Steven Cutts is a doctor,...
15 June 2018
Company aims to reach orbit with spinning rocket
...5,000 miles per hour around a centrifuge, before hurling it into space at hypersonic speeds. The approach might seem more in keeping with...prototype, it is giving nothing away about how its space catapult will operate. “Some people call it a non-rocket...
