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ESA will provide up to €169 million to each selected company as part of its European Launcher Challenge.
Private capital is increasingly being crowded out by larger funding rounds in the established launcher sector.
ESA plans to use fair contribution in 2025 for the European Launcher Challenge competition to support development of new European launch vehicles.
Spacemanic will use HyMOVE and the SL1 small launcher for nanosatellite deployment across up to 10 missions between 2026 and 2036.
China is developing a reusable super heavy-lift launcher intended to launch the ILRS and other missions.
The Vega C return to flight followed the retirement of Ariane 5 and delays in the introduction of Ariane 6, contributing to a European launcher shortfall that required use of SpaceX Falcon 9 launches for key science and navigation spacecraft.
Landspace is developing the larger Zhuque-3 stainless steel reusable launcher and conducted a 10-kilometer-altitude launch and landing test in September 2024.
ESA and the European Commission used SpaceX to launch several science and navigation spacecraft since last year during a period described as a launcher crisis in Europe.
The first launch of Exotube will be on an American medium or heavy-lift launcher in the first quarter of 2026.
Arianespace planned a second Ariane 6 flight for late 2024 but the launcher’s first commercial mission slipped into early 2025.
Each Blue Streak underground launcher required as much concrete as about 10 to 20 miles of divided highway.
Britain withdrew from European launcher development after the final Europa test flight, missing opportunities in the successful Ariane program.
European Launcher Development Organization (ELDO) began the development of the Europa launch vehicle with funding primarily from Britain, France, and Germany.
Microsat’s Qingzhou cargo spacecraft is planned to launch on the first CAS Space Kinetica-2 (Kinetica-2) kerosene-liquid oxygen launcher in the second half of 2025.
The Vega C launcher has been upgraded with more powerful first and second stage Solid Rocket Motors, bigger AVUM tanks, and a larger fairing that significantly increase payload mass up to 2,350t in SSO and double allowable volume.
The first-generation Vega launcher was first launched in 2012 and completed 22 flights, with a successful final flight on 2024-09-04 with Sentinel-2C on board.
The VV25 mission is scheduled to launch on Tuesday, 2024-12-03 at 6:20 p.m. local time (9:20 p.m. UTC, 10:20 p.m. CEST) from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana with a Vega C launcher.
The Artemis 1 launch in November 2022 caused more damage to the mobile launcher than expected, requiring repairs and the addition of protective barriers for future launches.
The Black Arrow rocket was the first British satellite to be launched by a British launcher.
Skyrora is developing the three-stage Skyrora XL orbital launcher that uses kerosene/HTP.