Relativity Space said Monday that the company has successfully completed a full-duration test-firing of its Aeon 1 rocket engine, running it at full power for 187 seconds.
Read MoreRocket builder Relativity Space this summer moved into its new headquarters in Long Beach, California.
Read MoreRelativity Space says it has reached an agreement with Iridium to launch six of the company's next-generation communications satellites.
Read MoreDavid Giger bounded up 26 steel steps and emerged onto a rocket engine test platform. Off to his left, an unbroken stand of stately pine trees spread out over the Mississippi lowlands. Straight ahead, Giger had a clear view of two Apollo-era test stands through the trees. “It’s quite a view,” he said.
Read MoreAssembly of the launch vehicle, called Terran 1, its Aeon engines and R&D will all take place in the new HQ. It’s nearly 120,000 square feet, and will be built as a very high-tech manufacturing operation indeed. There will be no fixed tooling, meaning the factory can be rapidly reconfigured, and will be highly automated. The company’s 3D printers aren’t like the simple ones used for rough prototyping, but enormous, carefully monitored robot arms that perform real-time analysis of the metal they are laying down.
Read MoreThe aerospace startup is moving its headquarters from a 20,000-square-foot facility in Inglewood to a 120,000-square-foot site about 20 miles southeast.
Read MoreRelativity Space, a startup using 3-D printing to manufacture small launch vehicles, will move its headquarters to Long Beach, joining several other launch vehicle companies in that Southern California city.
Relativity announced Feb. 28 that it is moving into a 120,000-square-foot facility in Long Beach that will serve as its new headquarters and launch vehicle manufacturing facility. Company officials had said for months that they were looking for a larger facility as they outgrew existing space in Los Angeles.
Read MoreWith their manufacturing square footage increasing fivefold to 3D-print rocket components for orbital missions, Relativity Space is taking a run at the space business.
The young company, fresh off a $140 million Series C round in late 2019, announced they have secured a massive 120,000 sq. ft manufacturing facility and operations center in Long Beach, California to make rocket parts quickly, cheaply and reliably.
Read MoreAhead of its first rocket launch next year, Relativity Space is moving into new, bigger digs in Long Beach, California where it will build the first fully 3D printed rockets to launch from Cape Canaveral.
Bursting at the seams at its current industrial headquarters not far from the Los Angeles International Airport the new sprawling 120,000-square-foot space in Long Beach will allow the five-year-old company to really spread out and begin assembling its Terran 1 rockets.
Read MoreRelativity Space, the first company to utilize additive manufacturing and robotics to build an entire launch vehicle, today announced that it has secured a new headquarters in Long Beach, California. Located at 3500 E Burnett, Long Beach, the 120,000 sq. ft. space will house both the company’s business operations and an unprecedented manufacturing facility. Relativity integrates machine learning, software, and robotics with metal additive manufacturing technology and will produce Terran 1, the world’s first 3D printed rocket, at the Long Beach facility.
Read MoreRelativity Space, the first company to utilize additive manufacturing and robotics to build an entire launch vehicle, today announced that it has secured a new headquarters in Long Beach, California. Located at 3500 E Burnett, Long Beach, the 120,000 sq. ft. space will house both the company’s business operations and an unprecedented manufacturing facility. Relativity integrates machine learning, software, and robotics with metal additive manufacturing technology and will produce Terran 1, the world’s first 3D printed rocket, at the Long Beach facility.
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