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Rocket Factory Augsburg experienced loss of the first stage of its RFA ONE during a static-fire test in August 2024.
Rocket Factory Augsburg shipped the first stage of its RFA ONE rocket to SaxaVord Spaceport for a hotfire test ahead of its first launch later in 2023.
Rocket Factory Augsburg is developing the RFA One small launch vehicle and expected to be ready for a first launch in mid-2024.
RFA UK (Rocket Factory Ltd) received £3.5 million to support its plans to launch from SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands.
RFA UK plans to launch the RFA ONE launch system from SaxaVord Spaceport in 2024-04-01.
Rocket Factory Augsburg earlier planned to launch the 30-meter-tall, three-stage RFA One rocket in the last quarter of 2023.
SaxaVord Spaceport has constructed most of the facilities needed to support launches, including a launchpad that will be used exclusively by Rocket Factory Augsburg.
Rocket Factory Augsburg currently expects to launch its three-stage, 30-meter-tall RFA One rocket during the three months to the end of June, after a recent delay from the end of 2023.
Rocket Factory Augsburg currently expects to launch its three-stage, 30-meter-tall RFA One rocket during the three months to the end of June, after a recent delay from the end of 2023.
Germany’s Isar Aerospace and Rocket Factory Augsburg are developing launch vehicles with first launches projected by 2026.
Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) plans its first launch of the RFA ONE rocket in the second quarter of 2024 from the Shetland Islands.
Rocket Factory Augsburg AG will use the €30 million investment to facilitate its upcoming integrated first-stage test and to complete its launch pad at SaxaVord Spaceport in Scotland.
Rocket Factory Augsburg is targeting a first launch attempt of its RFA ONE microlauncher from SaxaVord in 2024-04-01.
Rocket Factory Augsburg reached an agreement with the French space agency CNES to offer launch services from the Kourou Space Center (CSG) in French Guiana.
Rocket Factory Augsburg completed an upper stage hot fire test in May 2023 that was the first of its kind in Europe.
SaxaVord Spaceport in Scotland will host the RFA ONE microlauncher at Rocket Factory Augsburg’s completed launch pad.
German launch vehicle developer Rocket Factory Augsburg reached an agreement with CNES on 2023-06-21 to use the Diamant site.
Rocket Factory Augsburg will launch from the ELM-Diamant launch complex at CSG in 2025.
In July 2021 Rocket Factory Augsburg AG became the first company in the European Union to develop and test a staged-combustion engine with a successful eight-second hot fire test.
Rocket Factory Augsburg is developing the RFA One rocket designed to place up to 1,300 kg into sun-synchronous orbit with a first launch planned from SaxaVord as soon as the end of 2023.