Every step to take-off counts

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Chongqing, China – May 06: In this photo picture, Rocket Lab Usa, Inc.’s logo is displayed on a smartphone screen.
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Overview: Every step is important for departure
If you throw a feast of a rocket prime minister, opening the doors to the vehicle’s launch ramp is a healthy appetizer.
Last week, Rocket Laboratory Introduced Launch Complex 3 -Virginia SpacePort Authority’s Middle Atlantic Regional SpacePort is the intended departure pad of the neutron rocket. The neutron itself will come to this party a little after the first flight Targeted this year – However, the premiere of the launch site is a big step especially for a hungry space industry, especially for Rocket Lab and more launching tools.
Until the end of 2018, the company produces the small leverage electron launching tool, which has realized its first commercial flights. The 141 -meter neutron is an upgrade on a scale: a medium, reusable rocket -reusable rocket and 1,500 kilograms up to 1,500 kilograms designed to carry loads up to 13,000 kilograms to low soil orbit.
Market scale for global carrier rockets designed to start a load on a specific route or orbit It was seen to expand This year and between 2034 9% compound at one -year growth rate (CAGR).
For years, the industry has deceived the limited departure capacity that Josef Aschbacher, the director of the European Space Agency last year, accepted a “launch crisis” that the agency tried to solve with the launch of Arıane-6.
Most of the launch capacity of this world is in the hands of SpaceX, Elon Musk, who exceeded both commercial competitors and national programs last year. In 2024, the company saw more than 130 flights to the Middle-Lift Falcon 9, the first-stage booster and re-using load Fairings. A little more than this half 259 orbital launch The global period may rise to more than 180 Falcon 9 this year. According to Musk’s December estimation. Even an August launch KUIPER carried satellites His owner Jeff Bezos released the new Glenn for Amazon, a rival blue origin. Hymen Journey Journey in January.
Accepting the disadvantages of extreme trust in a single provider is not far from SpaceX’s success story. Towards the middle of the year, US President Donald Trump’s threat of canceling government agreements in the middle of a explosive public order, causing the temporary swim of technology billionaire. SPACEX’s Dragon’s Dragon Space Crafts – Potentially, the US crew continues at that time before boarding the International Space Station. Since then, the waters calmed down and continue their partnership with SpaceX and NASA, but the incident turned to the house.
We have exceeded this: Go back from a brand new rocket model do not have a weak feat. Moscow’s re-usable Terran R and Firefly Aerospace’s reusable Terran R and Firefly Aerospace’s re-usable Terran Rus, and Relativity, plans to be ruined for departure in 2026. Last month, our collective breaths were kept in the second time, the variance of another flight, in the presence of another flight, the presence of another flight carefully. (Elon Musk’s giant won.)
However, when the global satellite market is foreseen, Expand seven times by 2035It is difficult to see why all eyes are glued when space companies reveal the latest and largest in new rockets or launch pads.
What’s up
- Canada is preparing the first month traveler -Canadensys Aerospace, according to the company’s CEO, the first mobile-making manufacture of Canada to investigate the bear-a logical first step for the ambitions of space exploration in the future. – BBC
- The Senate doubts NASA’s return to Moon Timeline – A former NASA manager told senators that the space agency was not likely to put the men back to the moon in front of Beijing, who started similar efforts. – Space News
- Esa Spacecraft takes on Venus Flyby – The European Space Agency’s Juice Spacecraft completed a Venus Flyby to explore Jupiter’s iced satellites and collect data about Callisto and Europa Moons in the planet’s Ganymende. – Space.com
Industrial maneuvers
- Trump says Space Command Headquarters will be moved to Alabama -AFD President Donald Trump said the US Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama and refer to the postal entry system of the second state. – NBC News
- White House Axes in NASA are unions – Washington took action to eliminate collective bargaining rights by referring to national security for various government institutions, including NASA. – White House Order Order
Market carriers
- The rocket laboratory reveals the new pad in front of the first neutron rocket launch -Rocket Lab introduced the new launch complex 3 pad on the Middle Atlantic Regional SpacePort on Wallops Island, which will be used to test and initiate the reusable neutron rocket that can be released at the end of the year. – Defense News
- Andoya Space, to support Rheinmetall satellite launch efforts – Andoya Space and Rheinmetall have agreed to strengthen their efforts to support satellite launch and space skills. – Defense Industry Europe
- Nordspace’s TAİGA launch Technology is delayed by weather problems -Tario -based technology starting Nordspace postponed the launch of the Taiga rocket, which was designed as the first commercial rocket departure from Canada after a safety system error and weather deductions. The company will try again in September. – Bet on
- China started Mexican satellites -China’s CAS area launched two satellites from Tijuana-based starting thumbs within the scope of a seven powerful party released in the Kineetica-1 rocket. – South China Morning Post
On the horizon
- 5 September – The Falcon 9 of SpaceX will start with Starlink satellites from Florida
- 5 September – Galactic Energy’s Ceres 1, Jiuquan will set off with an unknown load from China
- September 6 – The Falcon 9 of SpaceX will be separated from California with Starlink satellites
- September 9 – CASC will start with an unknown load from Taiyuan on March 6
- September 11 – Roscosmos’s Soyuz 2.1a will leave the International Space Station with materials Baikonur, Kazakhstan