SpinLaunch Completes Milestone Flight Test 10 - Launching Payloads from NASA, Airbus U.S., Cornell University, Outpost
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Monday, October 3, 2022
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Four partner payloads, as well as two instrumentation payloads, were flown on the Suborbital Accelerator Flight Test Vehicle.
Key Points:
- Four partner payloads, as well as two instrumentation payloads, were flown on the Suborbital Accelerator Flight Test Vehicle.
- Payloads were inspected post-spin and subsequently integrated into the Flight Test Vehicle in preparation for Flight Test 10.
- After the completion of Flight Test 10, the DAQ was successfully recovered and removed from the Flight Test Vehicle.
- Flight Test 10 exercised the operation of a SpinLaunch designed payload deployment system, which released multiple ChipSats from the Flight Test Vehicle.