Relativity Space is an American aerospace manufacturing company focused on revolutionizing rocket production through 3D printing, AI, and autonomous robotics. As a launch provider, they are developing reusable rockets like Terran R to offer cost-effective and high-performance launch services for commercial and government customers. Relativity Space has partnerships with NASA, U.S. Air Force, Spaceflight Industries, Momentus, OneWeb and Intelsat, with a long-term goal of establishing an industrial base on Mars. Associated keywords: 3D printing, launch vehicles, commercial spaceflight, Terran R, Stargate printers.
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Iridium signed a 2022-07-26 contract with an unnamed launch provider to launch five spare satellites next year for $35 million, and Iridium’s contract with Relativity remained in effect with one spare left to launch on Terran 1.
The joint Relativity-Impulse lander is intended to carry payloads for government and commercial customers and to provide services similar to those offered by companies developing lunar landers under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Relativity Space is testing its smaller Terran 1 rocket at its Cape Canaveral, Florida, launch site for a first launch later this summer.
Relativity Space and Impulse Space are collaborating on a robotic Mars lander mission that they anticipate could launch in the late 2024 Earth-to-Mars launch window.
Relativity Space has produced four generations of Stargate printers, with the most recent generation increasing print speed by 10 times over the prior generation.
Relativity Space’s backlog includes a multi-year, multi-launch Launch Services Agreement with OneWeb announced in June 2022.
Terran R features a five-meter payload fairing and can launch almost 20 times greater payload than Relativity’s Terran 1.
Relativity Space has signed five customers for Terran R totaling more than $1,200,000,000 in backlog.
Relativity Space will launch Impulse Space’s Mars Cruise Vehicle and Mars Lander from Cape Canaveral, Florida under an exclusive agreement that extends through 2029.
LARES-2 was placed in an inclined orbit at an altitude of 5,893 km to test Einstein’s theory of General Relativity.
The inaugural Vega-C flight launched the LARES 2 Laser Relativity satellite built by OHB Italia for the Italian space agency ASI.
Relativity will launch OneWeb missions from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Relativity’s manufacturing technology stack centers on its Stargate printers capable of 3D printing Terran 1 and Terran R.
Relativity deployed the fourth generation of Stargate printers, improving the prior generation’s print speed by 10 times.
Relativity will launch OneWeb’s Low Earth Orbit satellites on Terran R starting in 2025.
Relativity Space has signed a multi-year, multi-launch Launch Services Agreement with OneWeb.
Relativity has a total of five signed customers for Terran R, including multiple launches and totaling more than $1,200,000,000 in backlog.
Terran R will be constructed using 3D-printing technologies Relativity Space has been developing since its inception.
Relativity Space has orders for more than 20 Terran R launches and a backlog the company values at more than $1,200,000,000.
Relativity Space announced the Terran R in June 2021 at the same time it disclosed a $650,000,000 funding round.