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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Zachary Dunn will lead a team at Relativity Space with an initial focus on delivering the first Terran 1 launch vehicle and then scaling up production of the rocket using the company’s 3D-printing technologies.
Most Relativity Space employees have been working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, with sometimes only a single person in the factory overseeing the company’s 3-D printers.
Relativity Space moved its headquarters to a larger building in Long Beach, California earlier in 2020.
Zachary Dunn will oversee production of the Terran 1 rocket at Relativity Space.
Relativity Space is a California-based startup that uses 3-D printing to manufacture small launch vehicles.
Relativity signed an agreement with Stennis in 2018 to use the E-4 complex for tests of its Aeon engine for the Terran 1 rocket and has a separate agreement to convert a building at Stennis into a factory for those rockets.
The Long Beach facility will eventually be able to support 300 employees, double Relativity Space’s current headcount, and host production of the Terran 1 rocket.
Relativity Space currently tests engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and has long-term plans to develop a launch vehicle production facility at Stennis.
Relativity Space secured a 20-year exclusive use lease for a 220,000-square-foot factory at the NASA Stennis Space Center.
Relativity Space uses 3-D printing to manufacture small launch vehicles.
Pacific Industrial constructed and manages Relativity Space’s Long Beach facility.
Relativity Space is building an autonomous rocket factory that will house all production for Terran 1 and Aeon engine assembly.
Relativity Space closed a $140,000,000 funding round led by Bond and Tribe Capital.
Relativity Space is moving into a 120,000-square-foot facility in Long Beach that will serve as its headquarters and launch vehicle manufacturing facility.
Relativity Space will produce Terran 1, the world’s first 3D printed rocket, at the Long Beach facility.
Relativity Space expects to perform a first launch of the Terran 1 rocket in 2021 from a site it will develop at Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Finalists for Deal of the Year included SpaceX raising $1,000,000,000+, NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services awards, OneWeb raising $1,000,000,000+, HawkEye 360’s $70,000,000 Series B, Virgin Galactic’s IPO, Relativity’s $140,000,000 round, the Raytheon-United Technologies merger, and the L3-Harris Corp. merger.
Relativity Space’s Stargate factory and Terran 1 are designed, built, and operated in the United States.
Relativity Space increased its infrastructure from 10,000 square feet to over 280,000 square feet of operations, production, testing, and launch facilities to scale for first flight.
Relativity Space was on track to reach over 480,000 square feet of infrastructure in 2019.