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Launcher has been testing the E-2 engine at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
Launcher is developing Orbiter, an orbital transfer vehicle that will first fly later 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission.
The E-2 engine will power Launcher Light, the small launch vehicle Launcher is developing for a first flight in 2024.
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.
Benchmark Space Systems’ propulsion product and services suite supports spacecraft from 3U CubeSats through ESPA-class (3–500 kg) satellites, lunar landers, spent launcher stages, and orbital transfer vehicles.
Pléiades Neo 5 and Pléiades Neo 6 are due to be launched simultaneously on the Vega C European launcher from Kourou in French Guiana later 2022.
Launcher provides launch and orbital transfer services for satellites at a price of $8,000 to $25,000 per kilogram depending on mission requirements.
The three Transporter rideshare missions that Launcher booked in February are scheduled to launch in January, April, and October 2023.
Launcher completed the first full-thrust test firing of the E-2 engine it is developing for Launcher Light on 2022-04-25.
Launcher offers a dedicated Orbiter mission at $400,000 plus launch costs.
Launcher introduced the Orbiter transfer vehicle in June 2021 to provide last-mile delivery services for satellites and hosted payload capabilities.
The Hyperbola-2 will likely use new launch infrastructure recently constructed at Jiuquan that was built to facilitate Landspace’s Zhuque-2 methalox launcher.
The selected launcher for TacRS-3 will deploy a space domain awareness payload called Victus Nox.
Belgian-developed technology contributed to the Giotto mission and the Ariane launcher following the creation of ESA in May 1975.
NASA selected Bechtel in June 2019 to build Mobile Launcher 2 with a contract that had an original value of $383,000,000 over 44 months.
On 2022-01-27, NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel recorded that the agency had sent a second "letter of concern" to Bechtel requesting a response by 2022-02-01 and that NASA was considering changes to the structure and management of the Mobile Launcher 2 contract.
NASA scrubbed two earlier SLS wet dress rehearsals before 2022-04-14, with the 2022-04-03 test stopping before propellant loading could begin and the 2022-04-04 test filling the core stage liquid oxygen tank to about 50% before stopping prior to liquid hydrogen loading because of a misconfigured valve on the mobile launcher.
Benchmark Space Systems supports spacecraft ranging from 3U CubeSats through ESPA-class (3-500 kg) satellites, lunar landers, spent launcher stages, and orbital transfer vehicles.
Launcher relocated 10 engineers and their immediate families from a Ukraine-based office to Sofia, Bulgaria and is supporting six employees who elected to remain in Ukraine.
iSpace’s Hyperbola-2 launcher is designed to deliver over 1,100 kg of payload into a 500-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbit or 800 kg when the first stage is recovered and reused.