As impressive as it is to watch a rocket blast off into space, harnessing fossil fuels and explosions to pursue our dreams of space exploration is ironically primitive. A company called SpinLaunch thinks it has a better idea: It wants to launch small objects into space using a giant spinning centrifuge instead.
Source: Gizmodo – This Company Wants to Launch Satellites Into Orbit Using a Giant Spinning Centrifugal Slingshot