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ABL Space Systems laid off an unspecified number of employees in late August 2023 to reduce costs after the loss of a rocket in a static-fire test.
El Segundo, California-based ABL Space Systems’ plan to launch from SaxaVord next year is uncertain after the company recently lost a rocket during a static-fire test.
Lockheed Martin is both an investor in ABL Space Systems and a major customer that made a block buy of up to 58 RS1 launches in 2021.
ABL Space Systems planned to conduct its SaxaVord Spaceport launch in 2023 but has not announced a date for its next launch attempt after its inaugural mission from Alaska failed to reach orbit on 2023-01-10.
ABL Space Systems had planned RS1’s first launch from Kodiak Island in Alaska in early 2022 but now aims to debut the rocket in 2022-06-05.
ABL Space Systems planned to conduct the first launch of its RS1 rocket from Alaska in 2022 and was also considering launches from Cape Canaveral in 2023.
ABL Space Systems raised $200,000,000 in October as an extension of a $170,000,000 Series B round it raised seven months earlier.
Small launch providers Relativity Space and ABL Space Systems won contracts to launch military payloads and targeted first flights in 2022.
ABL Space Systems secured $170,000,000 in a funding round seven months earlier that valued the company at $1,300,000,000.
ABL Space Systems retained most of the $170,000,000 it raised in March.
ABL Space Systems won a contract to launch a NASA Cryogenic Demonstration Mission spacecraft in 2023.
ABL Space Systems expects to launch its RS1 rocket for the first time later 2021.
ABL Space Systems raised $170,000,000 in funding on 2021-03-25 to help build up infrastructure and launch sites ahead of its first launch.
ABL Space Systems planned to establish a test site at Spaceport Camden but conducted its testing elsewhere while preparing for a first launch from California.
ABL Space Systems secured $44,500,000 in U.S. Air Force contracts for launch demonstrations and $49,000,000 in private financing.
ABL plans the RS1’s maiden launch in the first quarter of 2021.
ABL Space Systems completed testing of its E2 rocket engine for the RS1 vehicle at Spaceport America in New Mexico prior to 2025-12-17.
ABL Space Systems is planning a first launch of the RS1 vehicle in 2020.
ABL Space Systems planned a first launch of the RS1 in the third quarter of 2020.