Longshot Space closes over $5M in new funding to build space gun in the desert

Why use a rocket when you could use a giant, miles-long “gun” instead?  That’s the question posed by Longshot Space, a company that’s completely rethinking how to send mass to orbit. The company is developing a kinetic launch system that will gradually accelerate payloads to hypersonic speeds before launching them to orbit. While Longshot’s full-scale […]

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