{"id":17782,"date":"2020-02-29T00:48:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T16:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/relativity-space-is-moving-its-hq-to-a-huge-robotic-rocket-factory-in-long-beach-calif\/"},"modified":"2020-02-29T00:48:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T16:48:25","slug":"relativity-space-is-moving-its-hq-to-a-huge-robotic-rocket-factory-in-long-beach-calif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/relativity-space-is-moving-its-hq-to-a-huge-robotic-rocket-factory-in-long-beach-calif\/","title":{"rendered":"Relativity Space is moving its HQ to a huge robotic rocket factory in Long Beach, Calif."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_550291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-550291\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-550291\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/200228-relativity-630x420.jpg\" alt=\"Relativity Space factory illustration\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/200228-relativity-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/200228-relativity-1260x840.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/200228-relativity-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/200228-relativity-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/200228-relativity.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-550291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s rendering shows Relativity Space\u2019s autonomous rocket factory in Long Beach, Calif. (Relativity Space Illustration via Business Wire)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Relativity Space, the rocket company that was born in Seattle and headed south to Los Angeles, says it\u2019s moving into a new 120,000-square-foot headquarters and factory in Long Beach, Calif., that will use giant robotic 3-D printers to make launch vehicles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new facility will house Stargate 3-D printers capable of producing one-piece structures up to 40 feet in height for its two-stage, 110-foot-tall Terran 1 rocket, said David Giger, Relativity\u2019s vice president for launch vehicle development. \u201cWe can build our entire second stage,\u201d Giger told GeekWire.<\/li>\n<li>Giger said Relativity expects to be fully moved into the Long Beach facility, not far from its current L.A. headquarters, by May or June. \u201cThis Long Beach facility is really an enabler for a revolution in how rockets are produced,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the first autonomous rocket factory ever.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Relativity\u2019s CEO, Tim Ellis, is a veteran of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture who co-founded the startup&nbsp;in 2015. Although Terran 1 isn\u2019t due to get off the ground until next year in Florida, Relativity is already aspiring to be a next-generation SpaceX.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s rendering shows Relativity Space\u2019s autonomous rocket factory in Long Beach, Calif. (Relativity Space Illustration via Business Wire) Relativity Space, the rocket company that was born in Seattle and headed south to Los Angeles, says it\u2019s moving into a new 120,000-square-foot headquarters and factory in Long Beach, Calif., that will use giant robotic 3-D [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4585,4263,1685],"class_list":["post-17782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-3-d-printing","tag-los-angeles","tag-relativity-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}