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🇮🇹 Air-launched systems have had a complicated history. #Pegasus and #VirginOrbit’s #LauncherOne neither achieved commercial sustainability. Pegasus suffered a sharp decline in its launch cadence as customers migrated to lower-cost rideshare alternatives, and Virgin Orbit entered bankruptcy in 2023 after only six flights.

#LaunchCost #Italy

Once again, #rocketlab is capturing customers from other small launchers.

Today Rocket Lab announced they inked a deal with Japanese Earth Imaging company iQPS to launch their satellite into orbit!

Originally, the satellite was supposed to launch on Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230817106425/en/Rocket-Lab-Inks-Dedicated-Launch-Deal-with-Japanese-Earth-Imaging-Company-iQPS

#space #gospace #nz #virginorbit #vo #rklb

In the purely small-launch arena, #Vector and #VirginOrbit have both entered bankruptcy 📉, and #Astra has abandoned its first attempt to build a small #rocket 🚀 due to more failed launches than successful ones.
"We went through a period where tremendous amounts of #capital 💰 were raised for all kinds of concepts and ideas. At some point you actually have to #do what you #said you were going to do and #execute." https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/rocket-lab-hitting-its-stride-with-high-cadence-new-venture-for-electron

#Reuters 📆 April 18, 2023 The #rocket industry faces an interesting #dichotomy. Demand has surged from launching a few satellites 🛰️ on small rockets to launching swarms of #satellites at once using bigger #rockets, but U.S. #RocketStartups are taking drastic measures to survive a tight funding environment where fears have been exacerbated by the bankruptcy of #VirginOrbit. https://www.reuters.com/technology/rocket-startups-face-adapt-or-die-moment-amid-investment-drought-2023-04-17

#SpaceStartups #Firefly #RelativitySpace #Astra #SpaceCapital

📆 2023/02/16 Four 4️⃣ private #SpaceStations planned

• #AxiomSpace
• #NorthropGrumman
• #VoyagerSpace / #Nanoracks
• #SierraSpace / #BlueOrigin

"It's going to be a small percentage that #NASA is going to be funding these #SpaceStations" so each project needs "to go out and raise #capital 💰 to do this." https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/investing-in-space-the-space-station-kingmaker.html

Several other #SpaceNews in this article : #FAA #SpaceX #IntuitiveMachines #CASC #Roscosmos #AerojetRocketdyne #Maxar #VirginOrbit #VirginGalactic #SpaceRyde #Inmarsat #Astranis #SidusSpace #RocketLab #RelativitySpace #AllSpace #Iridium #AerojetRockdyne #JAXA #SpaceCom

Pictures : "Langley engineers check out the interior of the #inflatable 24-foot #SpaceStation in 📆 1962.", #Bigelow #SpaceStation, #CrewDragon approaches #ISS Kibo laboratory https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langley_engineers_inside_inflatable_a_24-foot_spacestation_mock-up.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bigelow_Aerospace_facilities.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crew-2_dragon_approach.jpg

📆 2023/02/16 Four 4️⃣ private #SpaceStations planned

• #AxiomSpace
• #NorthropGrumman
• #VoyagerSpace / #Nanoracks
• #SierraSpace / #BlueOrigin

"It's going to be a small percentage that #NASA is going to be funding these #SpaceStations" so each project needs "to go out and raise #capital 💰 to do this." https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/investing-in-space-the-space-station-kingmaker.html

Several other #SpaceNews in this article : #FAA #SpaceX #IntuitiveMachines #CASC #Roscosmos #AerojetRocketdyne #Maxar #VirginOrbit #VirginGalactic #SpaceRyde #Inmarsat #Astranis #SidusSpace #RocketLab #RelativitySpace #AllSpace #Iridium #AerojetRockdyne #JAXA #SpaceCom

Pictures : "Langley engineers check out the interior of the #inflatable 24-foot #SpaceStation in 📆 1962.", #Bigelow #SpaceStation, #CrewDragon approaches #ISS Kibo laboratory https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langley_engineers_inside_inflatable_a_24-foot_spacestation_mock-up.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bigelow_Aerospace_facilities.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crew-2_dragon_approach.jpg

📆 2023/02/16 Four 4️⃣ private #SpaceStations planned

• #AxiomSpace
• #NorthropGrumman
• #VoyagerSpace / #Nanoracks
• #SierraSpace / #BlueOrigin

"It's going to be a small percentage that #NASA is going to be funding these #SpaceStations" so each project needs "to go out and raise #capital 💰 to do this." https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/investing-in-space-the-space-station-kingmaker.html

Several other #SpaceNews in this article : #FAA #SpaceX #IntuitiveMachines #CASC #Roscosmos #AerojetRocketdyne #Maxar #VirginOrbit #VirginGalactic #SpaceRyde #Inmarsat #Astranis #SidusSpace #RocketLab #RelativitySpace #AllSpace #Iridium #AerojetRockdyne #JAXA #SpaceCom

Pictures : "Langley engineers check out the interior of the #inflatable 24-foot #SpaceStation in 📆 1962.", #Bigelow #SpaceStation, #CrewDragon approaches #ISS Kibo laboratory https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langley_engineers_inside_inflatable_a_24-foot_spacestation_mock-up.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bigelow_Aerospace_facilities.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crew-2_dragon_approach.jpg

#Reuters 📆 November 26, 2022 🇮🇳 #India : #Skyroot, which launched a test #rocket last week, expects to #cut the cost 💰 of a #launch by 50% compared with current pricing for established competitors like #VirginOrbit and #California-based #RocketLab https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-first-private-rocket-company-looks-slash-satellite-costs-2022-11-26/

#LaunchCost #SpaceCompany

Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne is returning to space in June - Orbital launch company Virgin Orbit has scheduled its next mission to space.
Virgi... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/pIyiilGqbDY/ #transportation #launchservices #smallsatellite #launcherone #spaceflight #virginorbit #outerspace #aerospace #rocketry #space #tc

Virgin Orbit teams with ISI on rapid response satellite launch services for intelligence customers - Small satellite launch company Virgin Orbit is teaming up with Israel’s ImageSat International (ISI... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/V0VichxJZ8k/ #launchservices #launcherone #spaceflight #virginorbit #outerspace #aerospace #rocketlab #satellite #israel #space #tc