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[Eric Berger] SpinLaunch—yes, the centrifuge rocket company—is making a hard pivot to satellites (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A hard pivot would have been going into food blenders. A launch company going into satellites seems more like just following the money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

They wouldn't have gotten the same investor money if they started with this concept, though. They got money to be SpinLaunch, so this is a pivot and a bit of a bait and switch for investors. Kind of like Relativity getting a $billion+ in investments for 3d printed rockets, then turning into Ariane.

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