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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Relativity’s new headquarters and primary Stargate production facility is The Wormhole, a 1,000,000+ square foot factory in Long Beach, California.
Relativity has secured five customers across more than $1,200,000,000 in customer contracts for Terran R.
Relativity secured The Wormhole, a former Boeing C-17 manufacturing plant, in 2021 to serve as its new headquarters.
Relativity Space is one of several launch companies that signed agreements to use test stands at Stennis Space Center.
Relativity Space will use the new facilities at Stennis Space Center to test its Aeon R engine for the Terran R reusable launch vehicle starting in late 2023.
Relativity Space uses several existing test sites at Stennis Space Center through exclusive-use agreements or reimbursable Space Act Agreements to test the Aeon 1 and Aeon R engines.
Relativity Space will expand its engine test site at NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
Relativity Space will build test stands, office buildings, and a vehicle hangar on more than 150 acres at Stennis Space Center.
Full Aeon R engine tests are tracking to occur in late 2023 at Relativity Space’s expanded Stennis facilities.
On 2022-10-18, Relativity Space provided plans to operate one of the largest rocket engine test facilities in the United States.
OneWeb has a deal to use a launch vehicle being developed by Relativity Space for missions that could start as soon as 2025.
OneWeb will launch some of its Gen 2 satellites on a launch vehicle being developed by Relativity Space as soon as 2025.
The five satellites covered by Iridium’s new $35,000,000 launch contract will not be launched by Relativity.
Iridium signed a 2020 contract with Relativity Space to launch up to six ground spares on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket.
Relativity had a backlog of more than 20 launches under contract as of mid-2022 and announced a deal with OneWeb in June 2022 for its second-generation satellites.
Relativity announced customers for Terran 1 including Iridium and Telesat.
Iridium’s June 2020 contract with Relativity included up to six Terran 1 launches each carrying a single spare satellite currently in ground storage.
Relativity is printing the second Terran 1 for a NASA VCLS mission at its Long Beach, California factory while testing the first vehicle on the pad.
Relativity announced the larger fully reusable Terran R with payload performance similar to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and estimated Terran R readiness as soon as 2024.
Relativity Space tested the first Terran 1 at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 16 in July 2022, including briefly igniting the nine engines of the first stage.