Filecoin announced that Space Race 2, Slingshot, will start at 18:00 UTC on September 23 and end at 18:00 on October 14. Slingshot is a track for Filecoin clients, application developers, and tooling developers to deploy their products to the testnet. This track will encourage clients and miners to make storage and retrieval deals, and help users of Filecoin storage prepare for mainnet. With SR2 Slingshot, Filecoin hopes to achieve the following goals: 1) Maximize the number of valuable applications storing real data on the Filecoin network; 2) Onboard real data to the Filecoin network, and make sure it is discoverable, retrievable, and usable; 3) Strengthen the Filecoin storage client and developer communities.