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Launcher’s goal is to complete testing of the E-2 engine at Stennis by the end of 2021.
ArianeGroup is building the Ariane 6 heavy-lift launcher to replace Ariane 5.
The $692,800,000 estimate for Mobile Launcher 1 includes $30,000,000 of work to be performed in 2020 through 2022 to prepare the platform for Artemis 2.
A NASA study originally estimated that modifying Mobile Launcher 1 for SLS would cost $54,000,000.
NASA currently expects to use Mobile Launcher 1 for the first three Artemis missions and potentially for the Europa Clipper mission before retiring it as operations shift to SLS Block 1B and ML-2.
NASA developed a formal cost estimate in 2014 that put the cost of modifying Mobile Launcher 1 at $384,700,000.
NASA modified Mobile Launcher 1, which was designed for the Ares 1 rocket, for use with the Space Launch System after a NASA study found that modification would be cheaper than modifying a shuttle mobile launch platform or building a new one.
The Mobile Launcher 1 platform was originally built for the Constellation program at a cost of $234,000,000.
NASA currently estimates the cost of Mobile Launcher 1 modifications will reach $692,800,000.
When including original Constellation program construction costs, NASA will have spent $927,000,000 on the Mobile Launcher 1 platform.
Thierry Breton proposed that Europe buy one additional European launcher annually to award its capacity to highly innovative projects.
Dawn Aerospace plans to conduct a suborbital flight in 2020 to mature launcher technology and carry payloads to microgravity.
CASC launches China’s government and military payloads and operates the Long March 11 solid-fuel launcher that entered service in 2015.
The Ariane 5 mission carrying Konnect and GSAT-30 slipped from 2019 into January 2020 due to a mixture of spacecraft and launcher delays.
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation plans a first launch of the larger, delayed Kuaizhou-11 launcher in 2020.
Vector performed a low-altitude test flight of its Vector-R small launcher from the Spaceport Camden site in August 2017.
The Long March 8 was first announced as an expendable launcher in 2016 and can initially be produced to meet a launch rate of 10 per year, according to CASC.
Inmarsat’s Inmarsat-6 F1 is scheduled to launch in 2020 on a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-2A rocket and Inmarsat-6 F2 is scheduled for launch in 2021 on a to-be-announced launcher, with both satellites sourced from Airbus.
Launcher’s Rocket-1 is scheduled for first flight in 2024 and is powered by five E-2 engines.
In less than five months from its initial submission Launcher won the $1,500,000 Air Force SBIR contract.