{"id":18408,"date":"2018-08-09T01:12:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/efforts-to-develop-small-scale-rockets-are-soaring-but-only-a-few-get-off-the-ground\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T01:12:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:12:56","slug":"efforts-to-develop-small-scale-rockets-are-soaring-but-only-a-few-get-off-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/efforts-to-develop-small-scale-rockets-are-soaring-but-only-a-few-get-off-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Efforts to develop small-scale rockets are soaring, but only a few get off the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> The latest \u201cState of the Industry\u201d report for small orbital-class launch vehicles tracks 101 reported efforts to create such rockets, compared with a mere 31 in 2015. But many of those efforts are defunct or in limbo, Northrop Grumman\u2019s Carlos Niederstrasser said today at the SmallSat Conference in Logan, Utah. \u201cWe\u2019re definitely starting to see attrition\u201d in the industry, he said. Niederstrasser said only four small launch vehicles have entered service since 2015: three Chinese rockets and Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron. He also noted that the per-kilogram price for putting a payload in orbit can go as high as $50,000. \u201cThese small launch vehicles are not going to be the cheapest way to get into the orbit,\u201d Niederstrasser said. \u201cTheir main selling point is convenience. \u2026 If you really want the cheapest access to space, you\u2019re still pretty much left with the rideshare domain.\u201d <strong>Check out the full report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Still Testing Launch - 01\/21\/2018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eg5234BOED8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Brief: The latest \u201cState of the Industry\u201d report for small orbital-class launch vehicles tracks 101 reported efforts to create such rockets, compared with a mere 31 in 2015. But many of those efforts are defunct or in limbo, Northrop Grumman\u2019s Carlos Niederstrasser said today at the SmallSat Conference in Logan, Utah. \u201cWe\u2019re definitely starting [&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":[554,4727,20,508],"class_list":["post-18408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-northrop-grumman","tag-rockets","tag-satellite","tag-smallsat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408"}],"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=18408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}