The company’s first suborbital system is designed to test the technology, but Spinlaunch does plan on doing a larger orbital launcher in the future. Neither system can put loads into space on its own, but by propelling the rocket to over 6 times the speed of sound at launch, the need for a big rocket that burns vast quantities of fuel is eliminated. Instead, a Spinlaunch rocket can be quite small and still take its payload to space. This will lower both the monetary cost and the environmental costs of launching small spacecraft (like satellites) into space.
Yes, normal rocket launching can be pretty bad for the environment, and expensive, so this may fill an important niche going forward.
See https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/20/spinlaunch-throws-a-camera-toward-space-with-electric-power/
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