Given this is a test flight, all that is aboard the rocket is the company’s first 3D metal print. Relativity Space said 85% of the rocket, including its engines, came out of its huge 3D printers at company headquarters in Long Beach, California. There was no immediate word on when the company might try again.Īt 110 feet (33 meters), the rocket is relatively small. The first launch attempt, on Wednesday, was aborted at the one-minute mark because of a bad valve. Relativity Space blamed the afternoon’s first problem on automation software and the second on low fuel pressure. Launch controllers reset the countdown clocks and aimed for the last possible moment of the three-hour window at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.īut once again, on-board flight computers halted the countdown, this time with 45 seconds remaining. The engines ignited, but abruptly shut down, leaving Relativity Space’s rocket, named Terran, standing on its pad. (Credit: Relativity Space via AP)Ĭape Canaveral: A rocket made almost completely of 3D-printed parts came within a half-second of blasting off Saturday on its debut flight, but remained grounded after back-to-back launch aborts. This image from video made available by Relativity Space shows the company's Terran 1 rocket on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday, March 11, 2023, after a countdown hold.
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