{"id":22016,"date":"2023-03-23T22:46:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/relativity-gets-terran-1-3d-printed-rocket-into-space-on-first-launch-falling-short-of-orbit\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T22:46:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:46:37","slug":"relativity-gets-terran-1-3d-printed-rocket-into-space-on-first-launch-falling-short-of-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/relativity-gets-terran-1-3d-printed-rocket-into-space-on-first-launch-falling-short-of-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Relativity gets Terran 1 3D-printed rocket into space on first launch, falling short of orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Second stage anomaly cuts Terran 1 from orbital glory<\/h2>\n

Lifting off just before midnight EST after a rocky countdown of upper-level winds and (once again) boaters wandering inside the exclusion zone, Relativity became the first company to launch a 3D-printed orbital rocket to space.<\/p>\n

After an almost hour-and-a-half delay, all parts of the Terran 1\u2019s launch criteria aligned for lift-off from SLC-16 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:25 p.m. EST. And lift off Terran 1 did. Powered by nine Aeon 1 engines, the 85% 3D printed rocket rose into the Florida night sky and cleared the Space Coast.<\/p>\n

Terran 1 successfully made it past Max-Q, the most intense portion of aerodynamic forces on the rocket, verifying that 3D-printed structures can endure the stresses of spaceflight. After Max-Q, Terran 1 successfully shut down the first stage engines, staging, and what looked like the ignition of the vacuum Aeon engine on the second stage.<\/p>\n

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