SpinLaunch
Sign in to saveSpinLaunch is a spaceflight technology development company working on mass accelerator technology to move payloads to space. 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.
Key facts
- Company.name
- SpinLaunch Inc.
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- Company.type
- Private
- Company.industry
- Aerospace
- Company.founded
- 2014
- Company.founder
- Jonathan Yaney
- Company.hq_location
- 4350 E Conant St
- Company.hq_location_city
- Long Beach, California
- Company.hq_location_country
- United States
- Company.area_served
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- Company.key_people
- CEO: David Wrenn
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- Company.num_employees
- 120–180 (estimate)
- Company.footnotes
- California Secretary of State, Built in LA
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- History
- Technology
- Considerations
- Limitations
- Advantages
- Flight testing
- See also
- References
- External links
SpinLaunch is a spaceflight technology development company working on mass accelerator technology to move payloads to space. 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.
== History == SpinLaunch was founded in 2014 by Jonathan Yaney in Sunnyvale, California. The company's headquarters are in Long Beach. In 2020 it opened a launch site. SpinLaunch continued development of its 140,000 square-foot (13,000 m2) corporate headquarters in Long Beach, and of its flight test facility at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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