Terran-1 World’s 1st 3D-printed rocket to launch Saturday. Watch here

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World’s 1st 3D-printed rocket to launch from Cape Canaveral
Terran 1 – the world’s first 3D-printed rocket – is set to liftoff at 1 p.m. ET (18:00 UTC) on Saturday, March 11, 2023. The launch site is Cape Canaveral Space Force Base on Florida’s Atlantic coast.

Watch it with the video player embedded above, or at this link.

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‘Good Luck, Have Fun’
Relativity Space, a Long Beach, California-based company, designed the two-stage expendable Terran 1 launch vehicle. It can carry a maximum payload of 2,760 pounds (1,250 kg) to low-Earth orbit (LEO) at 115 miles (185 km). The spacecraft is also rated to carry up to 2,000 pounds (900 kg) to higher sun-synchronous orbits.

For the maiden voyage – dubbed Good Luck, Have Fun – the Terran 1 will not carry a customer payload. However, that is the intended future use for the craft.

Most remarkably, the majority of the Terran 1 – 85% of the rocket – was printed. The company claims it can “build” launch vehicles – either the Terran 1 or the reusable Terran R that’s still in development – at a breakneck speed:

Relativity’s proprietary Factory of the Future centers on Stargate, the world’s largest metal 3D printers, that create Terran 1, the world’s first 3D-printed rocket, and the first fully reusable, entirely 3D-printed rocket, Terran R, from raw material to flight in 60 days.

The Wall Street Journal even reported the company intends eventually to rival SpaceX.


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World’s 1st 3D-printed rocket to launch Saturday. Watch here (earthsky.org)

 

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Terran 1: Launching The World’s First 3D Printed Rocket (Pt. 2)

Relativity is scheduled for its second launch attempt of Terran 1, called "GLHF" (Good Luck, Have Fun), from Launch Complex 16 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Our launch window opens at 1300ET on March 11, 2023. This launch of Terran 1 will not include a customer payload. Standing 110 ft. tall and 7.5 ft. wide, Terran 1 is the largest 3D printed object to attempt orbital flight. As a two-stage, expendable rocket, Terran 1 has nine 3D printed Aeon engines on its first stage and one Aeon Vac on its second stage. Like its structure, all Relativity engines are entirely 3D printed, and use liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid natural gas (LNG), which are not only the best for rocket propulsion, but also for reusability, and the easiest to eventually transition to methane on Mars.

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