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Relativity Space scrubs first launch attempt
Relativity Space’s 110-foot-tall Terran 1 rocket during Wednesday’s launch attempt. Credit: Relativity Space Relativity Space’s first launch countdown aborted about a minute before liftoff Wednesday at Cape Canaveral when sensors detected warmer-than-expected liquid oxygen on the Terran 1 rocket’s second stage, delaying until Saturday the first test flight of the 3D-printed launcher. The 110-foot-tall (33.5-meter)…
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Relativity Space ready to launch 3D-printed, methane-fueled orbital rocket
EDITOR’S NOTE: Relativity Space scrubbed the launch attempt for the Terran 1 rocket on Wednesday, March 8. Read our updated story after the launch scrub. Relativity Space’s 110-foot-tall (33.5-meter) Terran 1 rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Relativity Space / Trevor Mahlmann Relativity Space, a California-based startup that counts billionaire…
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Launch day timeline for Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated March 22 with new launch date. Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket on Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Relativity Space / Trevor Mahlmann Relativity Space’s 10-story-tall Terran 1 rocket will encounter the most extreme aerodynamic forces of its eight-minute test flight around 80 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral.…
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Starfish Space raises $14M to advance development of satellite servicing vehicles
An artist’s conception shows an Otter servicing vehicle docked to a larger satellite. (Starfish Space Illustration) Starfish Space, a Seattle-area startup founded by two veterans of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, has raised $14 million in funding to support its plans to develop spacecraft capable of hooking up with bigger satellites to boost their…
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Godspeed, Stoke Space! Rocket startup gets John Glenn’s launch pad at the Cape
An artist’s conception shows Stoke Space’s reusable second stage, equipped with a regeneratively cooled heatshield. (Stoke Space Illustration) Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space says it’s won the go-ahead to take over the Florida launch complex where John Glenn began the trip that made him the first American in orbit in 1962. That’s the upshot of the…
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Constellr and Exolaunch Sign Multi-Launch Agreement to Deploy Microsat Constellation
Two German NewSpace companies – constellr, a pioneer in space-based water, temperature, and carbon measurement for the agricultural sector, and Exolaunch, a global provider of launch, deployment, and in-space logistics services, have announced the signing of the multi-launch agreement (MLA) for constellr’s high precision versatile ecosphere monitoring (HiVE) microsat constellation. The HiVE constellation is designed…
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JAXA’s H3 rocket suffers second stage failure on inaugural launch
A decade of work with step-by-step progress JAXA and its partner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have worked on the H3 rocket for about a decade. Its mission is to eventually replace the agency’s HIIA rocket currently launching. H3 is supposed to be able to compete against SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on cost. However, it has years before…
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China plans Tianwen-2 mission for asteroid sampling
China plans to launch a new interplanetary mission targeting a small near-Earth asteroid, said the country’s space agency. The scheduled Tianwen-2 mission will sample an asteroid called 2016 HO3, return to Earth, and then head out again to a main-belt comet 311P. The China National Space Administration revealed the plan in a notice on Thursday,…
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Two launches for OneWeb this month will enable network’s global coverage
A stack of 36 OneWeb satellites awaiting launch later this month on an Indian GSLV Mk.3 rocket. Credit: OneWeb OneWeb is in the home stretch of a four-year launch campaign with two more missions — scheduled this week with SpaceX and later this month with NewSpace India Limited — set to give the company enough…
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China’s new-generation manned carrier rocket expected to make debut launch in 2027
China’s new generation manned carrier rocket is expected to make its debut launch in 2027 as the development phase gathers pace, according to the chief designer of the Long March-2F carrier. The new rocket is being developed to launch the next generation of manned spacecraft and planned lunar landers as China’s ambitious space exploration program…