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“Our goal is to be much faster than everyone else.”
Stories about the companies building a ride to space.
“Our goal is to be much faster than everyone else.”
Firefly Aerospace hit another milestone in its quest to reach orbit from Europe.
After a weekend-long weather delay, SpaceX is expected to launch its fourth rideshare mission of the year this afternoon.
The liquid-fueled mini-booster landed within 15 inches of its target.
Billions of dollars have yet to buy a SpaceX competitor.
SaxaVord spaceport is the only launch site in the UK that can host vertical launches, and the limited capacity has created a traffic jam.
“There’s actually a lot of aerospace there [with] no space access at all. It’s a very underserved area,” Dawn Aerospace CEO Stefan Powell told Payload. “It’s kind of like the last link in the chain in making space access happen in the interior of the country.”
If completed, iRocket wi the Nasdaq with an expected valuation of approximately $400M.
Eclipse is the product of scaled-up tech from Firefly’s smaller launch vehicle—Alpha—and shared systems from Northrop’s flight proven Antares program.
“We’re trying to prove that we can quickly respond to an on-orbit failure of a vehicle.”
For the third flight in a row, SpaceX’s Starship upper stage exploded yesterday after losing control during its ninth test flight.