The International Space Station, home to cutting-edge physics experiments NASA Physicists are close to performing the most accurate tests of Einstein’s ideas about gravity ever undertaken. Their first-of-its-kind experiment involves using two kinds of extremely cold atoms aboard the International Space Station (ISS). A key principle of Einstein’s theory, and […]
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WASHINGTON — Satellite operator Intelsat has signed an agreement with Relativity Space for multiple launches of that company’s Terran R reusable launch vehicle under development. The two companies announced Oct. 11 they had signed a multi-year, multi-launch agreement for Terran R launches of Intelsat satellites starting no earlier than 2026, […]
WASHINGTON — Launch vehicle company Relativity Space is growing its footprint at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi by leasing an Apollo-era test stand to support development of its Terran R rocket. The company announced Sept. 7 that it signed an agreement with Stennis to lease the A-2 test stand […]
WASHINGTON — Two companies are preparing for a 2026 launch of what they believe will be the first commercial robotic Mars lander mission, the start of what the companies plan to be a regular series of such missions. Impulse Space and Relativity Space announced last July plans for the lander […]
WASHINGTON — Relativity Space has decided to retire its Terran 1 small launch vehicle after a single flight that failed to reach orbit, focusing its resources on a revised version of its larger Terran R rocket. Relativity said April 12 that, less than a month after the first launch of […]
WASHINGTON — Relativity Space’s first Terran 1 rocket successfully got off the launch pad March 22 but failed to reach orbit because of an upper stage malfunction. The Terran 1 rocket lifted off at 11:25 p.m. Eastern from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on […]
Terran 1, a rocket designed and built by the company Relativity Space, suffered a failure shortly after lifting off from a launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., late on Wednesday night. A demonstration mission, the rocket was not carrying people or a customer payload, and no one was hurt. The vehicle […]
WASHINGTON — Relativity Space scrubbed a launch of its Terran 1 rocket March 11 after two last-minute aborts for technical issues. A first launch attempt during a three-hour window was aborted at 2:42 p.m. Eastern, at T-0.5 seconds. The rocket’s nine Aeon 1 engines had already ignited when the abort […]