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FORUM is scheduled to launch on a Vega-C launcher from Kourou, French Guiana, in 2027.
Seven additional companies, including Atomos, Exotrail, Firefly Aerospace, Launcher, Space Machines, Exolaunch, and Impulse Space, are preparing to enter the market with initial flights scheduled in the next three years.
The audit attributed more than 70% of Mobile Launcher 2’s cost increase and 60% of its schedule delay to poor contractor performance by Bechtel.
The contract for Mobile Launcher 2 grew to $460,300,000 by March because of government-driven changes that pushed delivery to January 2024.
Bechtel underestimated the scope and complexity of designing and building Mobile Launcher 2 and significantly underestimated costs for equipment, supplies, and labor hours.
NASA awarded Bechtel a $383,000,000 cost-plus contract in June 2019 to design and build Mobile Launcher 2 for delivery in March 2023.
A joint confidence level analysis projected a 3.9% chance of completing Mobile Launcher 2 at the revised budget and schedule.
Bechtel is building Mobile Launcher 2 for NASA to support launches of the Space Launch System Block 1B beginning with Artemis 4.
Bechtel’s estimate projected completing Mobile Launcher 2 in October 2025 followed by more than a year of testing and preparations before it would be ready for the Artemis 4 launch.
Bechtel’s estimate of the cost at completion for Mobile Launcher 2 increased to $960,100,000 as of February, equal to 2.5 times the original contract value.
NASA awarded Bechtel nearly half of the $16,800,000 in award fees for which it was eligible through September 2021 despite problems with Mobile Launcher 2 development.
An independent review team commissioned by Kennedy Space Center concluded that at NASA’s 70% confidence level Mobile Launcher 2 would cost nearly $1,500,000,000 and be delivered in November 2027.
Vikram 1 is a solid-fueled, three-stage satellite launcher designed to deliver up to 500 kg of payload to low Earth orbit.
The Long March 5B launcher components were shipped to Wenchang via specially constructed cargo vessels.
LizzieSAT-1 is an International Space Station Space Station Integrated Kinetic Launcher for Orbital Payload Systems (SSIKLOPS) deployed mission planned for 2022-10-01.
Max Haot, CEO of Launcher, stated that his company is experiencing strong demand for its services.
U.S. Space Force awarded Launcher Space $1,700,000 on 2022-05-18 to further develop the company’s E-2 engine.
Launcher Space tested the E-2 engine at NASA Stennis Space Center and demonstrated the highest-performing liquid oxygen and kerosene rocket engine combustion chamber in the United States.
Launcher won a $1,700,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force to assist development of its E-2 high-performance rocket engine for a small launch vehicle.
Launcher Light and Orbiter are designed to provide increased access to space to meet demand that Launcher assesses is not being met by existing providers.