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In 2020 the AFRL rocket lab signed an agreement with ABL Space Systems to jointly develop and test rocket propulsion components for future use in launch vehicles.
Dan Piemont, ABL co-founder, highlights the optimization of RS1 and GS0 for lean operations to adapt to evolving mission profiles.
ABL and partners are preparing for a second demonstration activity that will incorporate live deployment of GS0 mobile launch infrastructure.
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and ABL Space Systems are collaborating to demonstrate rapid launch system operations from nontraditional sites.
ABL and AFRL partnered with the 2nd Space Launch Squadron and 412th Test Wing for the first demonstration activity.
ABL and its partners successfully determined the minimum resources needed to activate GS0.
ABL’s deployable ground system, GS0, and small launch vehicle, RS1, are being used in a series of ground demonstrations at multiple U.S. military installations.
ABL’s systems are packaged into standard shipping containers and require no lifting equipment to operate.
ABL's RS1 and GS0 systems offer a flexible capability for conducting orbital launch operations at any desired location.
ABL is demonstrating systems that can ready a new orbital launch site from any flat concrete pad in under 24 hours with a small team.
Two Kuiper prototype satellites are scheduled to launch in 2022 on ABL Space Systems’ RS1 small launch vehicle, which had not yet conducted a flight.
Relativity Space’s Terran 1, Firefly’s Alpha, and ABL’s RS1 advertise capabilities to deliver 1,000 kg or more to low Earth orbit.
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’s first mission from Florida was planned to launch two prototype satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper.
ABL Space Systems is implementing manufacturing and operational improvements to the E2 engine to reduce the chance that fuel could leak into the turbopump and cause a hard start.
ABL Space Systems and Relativity Space raised large private funding rounds in 2021.
Small launch providers Relativity Space and ABL Space Systems won contracts to launch military payloads and targeted first flights in 2022.
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.
ABL Space Systems lost the second stage of its RS1 launch vehicle in a test anomaly during testing on 2022-01-19.
ABL planned to perform an RS1 launch from Kodiak Island, Alaska before the end of 2021 but has not provided an update since October 2021.