Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), founded in 2018, is a German NewSpace company focused on providing affordable and flexible launch services for small satellites. As a launch provider, RFA is currently developing its RFA One rocket, designed for low-Earth orbit missions and aiming to reduce launch costs by using standard industrial components and efficient production technologies. RFA's partners include companies like Conflux Technology and launch sites such as SaxaVord Spaceport, with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) as a customer. Key activities include rocket development, engine testing, and securing launch facilities to offer comprehensive space deployment services.
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Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), the launch arm of OHB SE, was founded in 2018 and is independently developing the RFA One small launcher.
Blue Origin built a large rocket factory outside the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to manufacture New Glenn boosters and is developing a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Rocket Factory Augsburg selected Andøya Spaceport in Norway for a 2022 maiden flight of its RFA One small-satellite launch vehicle.
Rocket Factory Augsburg plans to launch from the Diamant launch complex at the Guiana Space Centre in collaboration with French space agency CNES.
Launching from the Diamant complex will allow Rocket Factory Augsburg to offer access to a wider variety of orbits once the facility is operational.
Rocket Factory Augsburg was founded in 2018 as the launch arm of German space technology company OHB SE.
Rocket Factory Augsburg signed a memorandum of understanding with Andøya Space on 2020-09-24 to offer end-to-end launch services for small satellites aboard the RFA One from a new orbital launch facility.
Rocket Factory Augsburg concluded a major part of the initial planning phase required to construct a launch site for the RFA One at Europe’s Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana on 2020-09-29.
Each of HyImpulse, Isar Aerospace, and Rocket Factory Augsburg applied in the summer for 500,000 EUR in development assistance to mature their designs ahead of competing for follow-on Boost! awards worth 11,000,000 EUR.
Rocket Factory Augsburg, an OHB company, received a 500,000-euro award from the German space agency DLR as part of a competition to foster small launch vehicles.
Isar Aerospace, HyImpulse Technologies, and Rocket Factory Augsburg will use the DLR funds to further develop their launch vehicles ahead of a follow-on competition in spring 2021.
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