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Image: Images: SpinLaunch Graphics: Vicky LetaSpinLaunch is a winner of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for seeking to build a groundbreaking centrifugal launch system that can deliver small satellites to orbit cheaper, faster, and with reduced environmental harm.The Question Is it possible to launch rockets into the upper atmosphere without fuel?The ResultsThe first tests of the company’s suborbital 108-foot (33-meter) accelerator at Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert have been promising, attracting the attention…

The SpinLaunch A-33 Suborbital Mass Accelerator in New Mexico. Image: SpinLaunchSpinLaunch saidon Tuesday that it raised $71 million in funding during its second round of financing. The California-based company said it will use the funds to further develop an unconventional system for launching small payloads to Earth orbit. With the Series B funding round complete, SpinLaunch has now raised a total of $150 million, according to a company press release. The startup says it’ll use the money to “continue the development…