Using a slingshot to launch things into space sounds like an ambitious Evel Knievel trick. But, later this year, NASA is doing just that—but with a payload. The space agency has partnered with space ...

SpinLaunch's suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America fired its first projectile in an Oct. 22 test. Credit: SpinLaunch WASHINGTON — SpinLaunch, a company developing an alternative launch system ...

SpinLaunch has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA. Through this partnership, SpinLaunch will develop, integrate, and fly a NASA payload on the company’s Suborbital Accelerator Launch System to ...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Since it first went online more than 30 years ago, the Vertical Test Area at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has gotten used to ...

The number and variety of test interfaces, coupled with increased packaging complexity, are adding a slew of new challenges.