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U.K. Export Finance offers credit insurance, working capital, and buyer financing to small and medium enterprises, including launcher startups.
Viasat is the first commercial customer to commit to launch on the Ariane 64 launcher.
Under the modified contract, the ViaSat-3 satellite was moved from an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle to the Ariane 64 (A64) launcher.
Launcher plans to develop Rocket-1 to loft 773 kg to a 200-kilometer orbit with test flights starting in 2024.
The European Space Agency’s April launcher agreement provided missions for the Avio-led Vega C rocket.
Hyperbola-1 is a 1.4-meter-diameter, 20-meter-long launcher that uses three solid stages and a liquid fourth stage to deliver up to 150 kg to a 700-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.
United Launch Alliance will begin flying Vulcan hardware on Atlas 5 rockets to give the next-generation Vulcan launcher flight heritage before Vulcan’s planned 2021 debut.
Blue Origin’s launcher concept is built around recovering boosters and the company plans to fly each of its core stages 12 times.
The German space agency DLR began a study in March 2025 on a reusable launcher concept that would use a winged first-stage booster captured on descent by an aircraft and towed back to land.
Beijing-based iSpace is planning its first orbital launch with the Hyperbola-1, a launcher 1.4 m in diameter and 20 m long that uses three solid stages and a liquid fourth stage.
CASIC launched Jilin-1 remote sensing satellites for Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd. using its Kuaizhou-1A launcher in January 2017 and September 2018.
Kuaizhou rockets, including the Kuaizhou-11, will be launched from a transporter erector launcher (TEL).
Telesat is the fifth customer to sign up to use Blue Origin’s reusable New Glenn launcher.
The Long March 11 solid-propellant launcher was scheduled for its first sea launch around 2019-06-01 using a converted vessel for low-inclination launches.
Chinarocket Co., Ltd. planned to launch the first Smart Dragon-1 (Jie Long-1) solid micro launcher designed to carry up to 150 kg into a 700-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.
Chinarocket Co., Ltd. under CASC is developing the Smart Dragon-1 (Jie Long-1) solid micro launcher with a 150-kilogram capacity to a 700-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbit and could have a test flight in the coming months.
Under a pilot partnership with the European Space Agency, the European Commission could buy a launcher each year and award its capacity to highly innovative projects to accelerate innovation in Europe.
The European Commission’s European Low Cost Space Launch competition will award 10,000,000 EUR to a small launcher company in 2021.
The European Space Agency tasked ArianeGroup with designing and building the Ariane 6 launcher.
A previous Chinese human lunar mission concept relied on the Long March 9 super-heavy-lift launcher with a 10-meter diameter that China aims to fly in 2028 and included an Earth-orbit rendezvous using a Long March 5B to loft the crew.