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On March 6, the first and second stages of Rocket Factory Augsburg’s RFA ONE arrived at the SaxaVord spaceport in Scotland.
Stefan Brieschenk is the director of development at Rocket Factory Augsburg.
The RFA ONE second stage came from a test site at Esrange, Sweden where Rocket Factory Augsburg performed a hot-fire test of its single engine.
Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) is a German company and a competitor of the Spanish company PLD Space.
RFA’s planned testing at SaxaVord is expected to include hot-fire tests of the first stage on the launch pad once the engines are installed.
Rocket Factory Augsburg is one of several European firms developing small launch vehicles and aiming to reach orbit next year.
Rocket Factory Augsburg determined that one engine experienced a very unusual anomaly that caused a fire which propagated to the other engines during the August 2024 test incident.
With Orbex no longer involved in Sutherland, Rocket Factory Augsburg is identified as the most likely recipient of the remaining €112.30 million under the European Launcher Challenge.
The United Kingdom committed an initial €10 million to Rocket Factory Augsburg under the European Launcher Challenge.
Rocket Factory Augsburg is preparing to launch the inaugural flight of its RFA ONE rocket from SaxaVord Spaceport later in 2026.
The operators selected for the European Launcher Challenge include Orbex, Germany's Isar, Germany's Rocket Factory Augsburg, France's MaiaSpace, and Spain's PLD Space.
Rocket Factory Augsburg is likely to be the next operator to attempt a launch from UK soil since Virgin Orbit’s failed flight in January 2023.
The vertical launch licences granted in 2025 to Skyrora and Rocket Factory Augsburg each set the indemnity cap at £10.5 million.
Rocket Factory Augsburg transported the first stage of its RFA ONE rocket to SaxaVord Spaceport on the island of Unst off the northern coast of Scotland.
The indemnity caps in the Virgin Orbit, Skyrora, and Rocket Factory Augsburg licences were imposed as a matter of policy rather than as a statutory requirement prior to the 2025 Act.
Rocket Factory Augsburg is commissioning the SaxaVord launch pad and preparing the RFA ONE upper stage for transport with a launch expected in 2026 but no specific launch date provided.
SaxaVord Spaceport is located on the island of Unst off the northern coast of Scotland and is preparing to host launches including a reattempt of Rocket Factory Augsburg’s RFA ONE.
Rocket Factory Augsburg is conducting advanced launch preparations at the SaxaVord spaceport on the island of Unst, Scotland.
Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has resumed the countdown to attempt the inaugural flight of its RFA ONE rocket nearly a year and a half after an accident destroyed the vehicle's first stage during a hot-fire test.
If RFA ONE's first flight succeeds, Rocket Factory Augsburg expects an initial launch cadence of up to four launches per year during the subsequent two years.