{"id":58944,"date":"2020-09-29T17:06:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T09:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-factory-plans-2022-maiden-launch-from-andoya-space-site-in-norway\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T17:06:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T09:06:02","slug":"rocket-factory-plans-2022-maiden-launch-from-andoya-space-site-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-factory-plans-2022-maiden-launch-from-andoya-space-site-in-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Factory\u00a0Plans 2022 Maiden Launch from And\u00f8ya Space Site in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Rocket Factory Augsburg AG<\/b> (RFA) has reached an agreement with the <b>And\u00f8ya Space<\/b> in Norway for a launch site for the maiden launch of its RFA ONE rocket. RFA announced in a Monday release that it plans to start delivering end-to-end launch services for small satellites in 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And\u00f8ya Space is developing the new launch complex on And\u00f8ya island, 35 km south of its existing sub-orbital launch site. The site will provide operators of vehicles in the 1.5 metric ton payload class with independent integration facilities and access to two launch pads. Rocket Factory, a German startup founded in 2018 and backed by <b>OHB<\/b> is developing the RFA ONE launcher for small satellites with a payload performance of up to 1,500 kg to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). The company recently qualified the upper stage tank system during cryogenic tests and is preparing hot-fire tests of the main engine in Sweden.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partnership is pivotal, it allows RFA and And\u00f8ya to launch the first satellite into orbit from continental Europe with an European launcher\u201d said Dr. Stefan Brieschenk, COO of RFA.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, RFA has completed a phase in its project with France\u2019s <b>National Centre for Space Studies<\/b> (CNES) and the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) to implement a launch site for the RFA ONE at the launch complex in Kourou, French Guiana. This follows on a MoU signed in 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) has reached an agreement with the And\u00f8ya Space in Norway for a launch site for the maiden launch of its RFA ONE rocket. RFA announced in a Monday release that it plans to start delivering end-to-end launch services for small satellites in 2022.&nbsp; And\u00f8ya Space is developing the new launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58945,"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":[],"class_list":["post-58944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58944"}],"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=58944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}