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ABL Space Systems will develop a launch site at SLC-15 for its RS1 small launch vehicle.
Last year, ABL Space Systems' RS1 and Relativity Space's Terran 1 failed to reach orbit.
Companies planning to launch from SaxaVord include ABL Space Systems, HyImpulse, Rocket Factory Augsburg, and Skyrora.
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 is moving ahead with a Block 2 version of the RS1 rocket that features increased thrust, more propellant, and design changes intended to improve production.
ABL implemented several changes simultaneously in 2023 to prepare a baseline for future RS1 and GS0 upgrade cycles.
ABL’s investigation identified the leading theory that the engine compartment fire was linked to the design of the launch mount, a GS0 component that raises the rocket to vertical and lowers it back to horizontal.
Space Systems Command’s Assured Access to Space office awarded a $15,000,000 contract to ABL Space Systems to demonstrate responsive launch capability.
ABL Space Systems received a $15,000,000 task order from the U.S. Space Force to demonstrate it can launch a payload on short notice from either one of the company’s two launch pads.
ABL’s contractual task is to maintain readiness at two separate deployed launch sites and receive an order from the U.S. Space Force to launch RS1 at either one of them.
ABL Space Systems’ STRATFI agreement includes $30,000,000 in government funding and $30,000,000 in matching funds from the company’s investors.
ABL developed the RS1 small launch vehicle capable of placing up to 1,350 kg into low Earth orbit.
Amazon had initially planned to deploy KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2 by late last year using ABL Space Systems’ RS1 rocket, which suffered setbacks.
Amazon initially planned to launch its first two Project Kuiper prototype satellites by the fourth quarter of 2022 on ABL Space Systems rockets before switching to a United Launch Alliance Vulcan mission now slated for the fourth quarter of 2023.
In 2021 Lockheed Martin signed an agreement to launch up to 58 payloads with ABL Space.
Lockheed Martin opted in 2020 to conduct a U.K. Pathfinder launch from SaxaVord Spaceport using a vehicle provided by ABL Space Systems instead of Sutherland Spaceport.
ABL Space Systems has raised several hundred million dollars from venture capital firms, including $200,000,000 in October 2021 in a round that valued the company at $2,400,000,000.
The STRATFI contract includes $30,000,000 in government funding and $30,000,000 in matching funds from ABL Space Systems’ investors.
On 2023-03-24, ABL Space Systems secured a $60,000,000 strategic funding increase (STRATFI) contract involving the U.S. Space Force and the U.S. Air Force that includes matching funds from private investors.
ABL Space Systems developed the RS1 small launch vehicle capable of placing up to 1,350 kg into low Earth orbit.