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This Startup Got $40 Million to Build a Space Catapult
Alphabet, Airbus and Kleiner Perkins are backing SpinLaunch, a Silicon Valley startup building a machine meant to fling objects into space.
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Flying cars. Cures for death. And now ... space catapults. Bless you, California, for not letting reality get you down.
On Thursday, a Silicon Valley startup called SpinLaunch Inc. will reveal the first details of its plans to build a machine meant to hurl rockets into space. To achieve that goal, SpinLaunch has secured $40 million from some top technology investors, said Jonathan Yaney, the founder.