H3’s rocket launch failed, Relativity scrubbed their maiden launch, and Rocket Factory tests a nitromethane-based fuel engine for its OTV
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Launch Updates
Last week, ???? Relativity Space scrubbed the launch of its Terran 1 rocket (carrying no payload onboard) twice; once due to abortion of the rocket's stage separation automation, and most recently due to a fuel pressure issue on the second stage. [Space.com] [LaunchSchedule]
???? Rocket Lab delayed the launch of its second mission, Stronger Together, from ???? NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration 's ????Wallops Flight Facility due to unfavorable wind conditions. The mission will carry two satellites for Capella Space . [Space.com] [LaunchSchedule]
???? PLD Space prepares for the launch of its suborbital, recoverable launch vehicle Miura-1 flight from ???? Huelva this month. Carrying onboard a 100kg payload by the ????German Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity ( ZARM ), it will be the first launch of a private rocket from Europe. [LinkedIn]
Past Flights
????H3’s rocket failed its first test flight on March 7 due to a second-stage engine malfunction, destroying the EO satellite, ALOS-3, onboard. [SpaceflightNow]?
40 ???? Eutelsat OneWeb satellites were launched by ???? SpaceX from ????Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on March 9. The upcoming launch with ???? ISRO / NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) will complete Gen 1 constellation later this month. [SatelliteEvolution] [LaunchSchedule]
Headlines
????/???? Astroscale Ltd to employ its Active Debris Removal (ADR) servicer through the COSMIC mission—to remove space debris by retrieving two defunct British satellites currently orbiting Earth—by 2026. [SpaceWatchGlobal]
???? OPUS Aerospace completes the hot-fire testing of its Torgos engine for use aboard its Mesange suborbital rocket, with the launch date as-yet undisclosed. [LinkedIn]
???? Rocket Factory Augsburg - RFA tests the Fenix engine (using nitromethane-based fuel) for its Redshift OTV. The OTV will serve as RFA ONE’s upper stage for all missions. [Twitter]
???? Momentus shipped its Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) to the ????Vandenberg Space Force Base for launch on the Transporter-7 mission next month. [SmallsatNews] Payloads onboard the Vigoride vehicle are: [LaunchSchedule]
???? Space Launch Delta 45 recently allocated several ????Cape Canaveral Space Force Station sites as follows:?
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None of the four companies have disclosed details about infrastructure they plan to build at the launch sites, or when they expect to start using them. [SpaceNews]
Funding?
???? Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. raises $5M in total funding to launch lunar data centers with provider ???? Intuitive Machines for its two missions, scheduled for launch in Q2 and Q4 2023. [SpaceWatchGlobal]
The ???? UK Space Agency to put up ￡1.6M for eight projects through its Enabling Space Exploration program, funding exploration and technological projects. [Gov.UK] The projects are as follows:?
???? Sidus Space lands an additional agreement for the next phase of ???? NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration ’s ASTRA on-orbit autonomy project, to integrate autonomous capabilities on a Sidus-built LizzieSat satellite. LizzieSat-1 is currently set for launch in 2023 via ???? Exolaunch , aboard Falcon 9. [SatelliteEvolution] [LaunchSchedule]
???? Starfish Space secures $14M for development of its Otter Pup satellite life-extension and debris-removal service, which will be launched aboard the Transporter-8 mission. [SpaceWatchGlobal] [LaunchSchedule]
????South Korea’s government to invest $38.5M in the private space sector by 2027 to support space startups. [SpaceRadar]
???? Argo Navis Aerospace , founded by previous Rocket Lab staffer Malcom Snowdon, secures $1.07M for its first space test flight of its K-200 sounding rocket. [NationalBusinessReview] [LinkedIn]
The ????EO AFRICA R&D Facility, in collaboration with ???? European Space Agency - ESA and the ???? African Union Commission , awarded 17 research projects that would develop EO algorithms and applications adapted to African challenges. The funding comes from 11 African and nine European countries. [SpaceInAfrica]
Opinions
???? 约翰迪尔 is yet to finalize a satellite partner to create geospatial crop maps to analyze crop growth and foster connectivity between farmers. [TechBrew]
????South California’s growth in startup activity over the last two years has been mapped out by ???? Starburst . The map: [LinkedIn]
Opportunity
???? European Space Agency - ESA is inviting space companies to create a telecommunication and navigation service for the agency under its Moonlight program, while being free to sell lunar services and solutions to other agencies and commercial ventures. [ESA]
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2 年There are some that aren't doing it internally like Isar, Gilmour, Orbex but rather choosing to go towards the partnership through MoUs but this could likely change towards opportunity for vertical stack.
Senior Systems Engineer, Boeing Defense, Space & Security
2 年One interesting aspect of space flight is that it leaves no opportunity to address defects after deployment, hence the keen attention to reliability.