A California business intends to whip satellites around at almost 5,000 mph before releasing them, allowing a rocket to power up its engine only after escaping Earth's gravity. Since 1960, humans have orbited objects. Not like this. SpinLaunch seeks to spin projectiles to generate enough energy to launch them into space.

The business wants to utilise a tiny rocket fashioned like a ballpoint pen to launch a satellite from a 300-foot-wide vacuum-sealed chamber. The rocket would escape a hatch and enter the upper atmosphere before an onboard rocket motor sent it into orbit.

SpinLaunch CEO Jonathan Yaney told CNN's Rachel Crane the concept is more like an amusement park ride than a rocket.

The seven-year-old business has accomplished nine high-altitude test flights using a scaled-down centrifuge to deliver things into orbit, a feat that needs speeds greater than 17,000 mph. SpinLaunch is still in its early phases, thus its technological and commercial success is uncertain.

SpinLaunch's investors, including GV, previously Google Ventures, and Airbus Ventures, have invested tens of millions of dollars. Yaney stated he wanted to review the past to rethink the future.

Jules Verne, who died 50 years before the first satellite launched, inspired SpinLaunch. Verne envisioned huge space weapons. Yaney thinks we employ rockets because of the Cold War, when upgrading weaponry was as vital as launching a satellite.

Yaney informed Crane that SpinLaunch was an exercise in using renewable and ground-based energy differently. 'I ran 20 or 30 scenarios including rail guns, electromagnetic accelerators, space cannons, and light gas guns.'

MIT astronautics and engineering systems professor Olivier L. de Weck says it's conceivable. SpinLaunch faces engineering challenges, he told CNN Business. SpinLaunch's centrifuge could exert 10,000 G's, or 10,000 times Earth's gravity, on a satellite inside.

'A CubeSat would be torn to shreds,' de Weck remarked of the popular tiny satellites. (SpinLaunch says humans won't get into orbit on its rockets.) G-forces would crush a person. SpinLaunch acknowledges the high G-forces. On its website, the business says its engineers are analysing the hardware's strength.

SpinLaunch's price is unknown. Yaney believes SpinLaunch's gear can launch 20 or 30 times each day, regardless of weather. SpinLaunch isn't the first rocket startup to claim such advantages, but it's the first to propose a novel way to reach space.

Yaney confesses that he wasn't confident SpinLaunch's technology would work until recently. Now he believes. 'Yaney told CNN that most people are sceptical of SpinLaunch until they visit and realise rockets are crazy. Transport rockets are the most sophisticated ever created. Illogical.'

Yaney said he wanted to pursue SpinLaunch for the same reason many visionaries in the 'new space' industry do: 'We expected as a civilization that, after the moon landing, [space travel] would follow a natural expansion like most industries do.'

We expected moon towns, space stations, and space hotels, he remarked. 'As a species, we always look up and say, 'That's the next frontier;'