LIVE NOW: First 3D printed commercial payload and potential passenger rocket Terran-1 set to launch at 11:00PM EST for trial run at Cape Canaveral, FL

[Blue Sky Country]

LIVE NOW: MARCH 22, 2023: Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Terran-1, the world's first commercial space rocket built by aerospace newcomer Relativity Space using mostly 3D printed parts and fueled entirely by liquid oxygen and CNG is set for it's first experimental launch tonight at Florida's space hub at Cape Canaveral. Terran-1 for tonight's flight is not carrying any passengers but if successful, future flights and succeeding variants of this vehicle will be used for cargo and passenger delivery to orbit.

COUNTDOWN TO 11:00 PM:

 

[Rookie]

Man that was cool

 

[Sean the Nailer]

it was, until it wasn't.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

For a first effort, not bad!

It didn’t blow up on the pad or crash in Boca. So… chalk that up to a win!

Cheers, Sirhr

 

[Blue Sky Country]

For a first effort, not bad!

It didn’t blow up on the pad or crash in Boca. So… chalk that up to a win!

Cheers, Sirhr

Modern rocketry, at least the early decades, were truly roulette spins with every launch even if everything on the ground and on paper looked okay at first glance. Names like "Vanguard TV-3", "Mercury-Redstone", "Explorer S-1", "Atlas-Centaur", etc., all bear fiery and unforgettable scenes of what happens when something critical fails aboard what is essentially a flying bomb the size of a skyscraper. But their successes led us to where we are today...

 

[Maggot]

LIVE NOW: MARCH 22, 2023: Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Terran-1, the world's first commercial space rocket built by aerospace newcomer Relativity Space using mostly 3D printed parts and fueled entirely by liquid oxygen and CNG is set for it's first experimental launch tonight at Florida's space hub at Cape Canaveral. Terran-1 for tonight's flight is not carrying any passengers but if successful, future flights and succeeding variants of this vehicle will be used for cargo and passenger delivery to orbit.

COUNTDOWN TO 11:00 PM:

They all look like Glowies! Hope someone brought marshmellows.

Skip to hear to avoid the crumby music and an hour twenty minute wait.