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SpinLaunch is a spaceflight technology development company working on mass accelerator technology to move payloads to space. [3] As of September 2022, the company has raised US$150 million in funding, with investors including Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, Airbus Ventures, ATW Partners, Catapult Ventures, Lauder Partners, John Doerr, and the Byers Family.
Space Forge was founded in 2018 by Joshua Western and Andrew Bacon, whilst they were working at Thales Alenia Space.In its early stages, the company started in a garage in Bristol, England, before going on to leverage the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult (CSAC) in Newport, Wales.
A mass driver or electromagnetic catapult is a proposed method of non-rocket spacelaunch which would use a linear motor to accelerate and catapult payloads up to high speeds. Existing and proposed mass drivers use coils of wire energized by electricity to make electromagnets , though a rotary mass driver has also been proposed. [ 1 ]
Catapult centres are a network of nine organisations set up by Innovate UK in the United Kingdom, to promote research and development (R&D) and to exploit market opportunities. [1] [2] [3] Catapult centres promote R&D and innovation through business-led collaboration between scientists, academics, engineers, entrepreneurs, industry leaders and ...
Aerial image of Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. The Harwell Science and Innovation Campus is a 700-acre science and technology campus in Oxfordshire, England.Over 6,000 people work there in over 240 public and private sector organisations, working across sectors including Space, Clean Energy, Life Sciences and Quantum Computing.
The organisation was formerly known as the Future Cities Catapult and also the Transport Systems Catapult, which were joined together on 1 April 2019. It works with Innovate UK, in Swindon . A Deep Academic Alliance agreement was signed with UK universities in July 2018. [1]
The Sutherland spaceport, also known as Space Hub Sutherland or UK Vertical Launch (UKVL) Sutherland, is a planned spaceport to be located in Sutherland in Scotland. It would be one of the first vertical launch capable spaceports in the United Kingdom, [ note 1 ] and operated by a commercial entity.
An initial test flight was unsuccessful on 25 May 2020, when the rocket failed to reach space. [7] The final flight on 9 January 2023 also failed to reach orbit. LauncherOne was the first all liquid-fuelled air-launched orbital rocket.