Rocket Report: Starship set for historic test flight; a century of Electron
Summary
SpaceX planned a Starship test flight for Friday, followed about 22.5 hours later by an attempt to land its upper stage. Rocket Lab’s Electron was scheduled for its 100th mission on November 14, while Firefly Aerospace signed an agreement to launch Synspective satellites on up to 10 Alpha missions through 2030.Key Facts
- SpaceX planned a Starship launch from Starbase, Texas, with an upper-stage landing attempt about 22.5 hours later.
- Rocket Lab’s Electron was scheduled to launch from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula on November 14 at 5:30 UTC for its 100th mission.
- Electron first flew in 2017.
- The Electron mission was set to carry an iQPS satellite for the company’s synthetic aperture radar constellation.
- Firefly Aerospace signed an agreement with Japanese company Synspective for up to 10 Alpha rocket launches through 2030.
- Each planned Firefly launch will carry two Synspective satellites, for up to 20 satellites in total.
- Firefly said it would launch the satellites from facilities in Virginia and California.
- Avio outlined additional investment needed to raise Vega C’s launch rate to six flights per year and eventually nine.
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