NASA Tests System To FLING Satellites Into Sky..
NASA Tests System To FLING Satellites Into Sky..
Welcome back to Tech Recall. NASA may soon be sling shotting its satellites into low-Earth orbit, thanks to its newly-tested partnership with a startup working on a giant centrifuge for that very purpose. In a press release, the SpinLaunch company trumpeted its recently completed tenth successful flight test of its Suborbital Accelerator. During this demonstration, it carried payloads for NASA (with which it inked a deal in April), Airbus, Cornell University, and others.
A Falcon 9 rocket effortlessly delivered a Crew Dragon spacecraft with a crew of four on board into orbit this week. But before it disappeared in the blue yonder, there was something off about the rocket's looks. Onlookers jumped to point out that NASA's iconic logo, a star-studded blue circle with a red swoop known as the "meatball" looked... wrong.
"Wait… what… what happened to Crew-5’s meatball?" Florida Today space reporter Emre Kelly tweeted.
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