While they are somewhat a threat, I have no doubt that RKLB will beat them to a reusable medium class rocket by many years. Talk is cheap in this game, it doesn’t matter how much funding you have, achieving orbit is incredibility difficult. Relativity Space has yet to achieve orbit, and while their plans are big, they have yet to prove their capabilities. Terran R is a medium/large class rocket designed to be reusable which poses a direct threat and is expected to make first orbital launch by 2024. Terran 1 is an expendable small sat vehicle which is expected to launch in 2022, no threat. Relativity Space – This newer space company has two rocket designs: (2021 Estimated 100 employees, mrkt cap ~2.5B) Astra will undoubtedly be a big player one day however, they are currently far behind Rocket Lab and eons behind SpaceX, therefore they are no threat. Today however, SpaceX has shown proof that it is possible with their Falcon 9 and many companies are working on following.Īstra – Lead by Chris Kemp does show promise, however by 8/2021, 4 of their first launches failed (Rocket 1, Rocket 2, Rocket 3.0, Rocket 3.1) with only their 5th rocket making it to to space but still failing to reach stable orbit in December of 2020 (Rocket 3.2). NASA attempted to do this with the Space Shuttle program because of the insane costs of the Saturn V (Moon rocket) but failed because of large scale refurbishment needs. Make that 747 rapidly reusable again and again, and the cost drops dramatically. Imagine if a Boeing 747 airliner had to be destroyed after every flight, each ticket would be over a million dollars a flight for them to make a profit, this is basically what we do with modern rockets. Most rockets today launch and the entire rocket gets destroyed. Why is reusability so important for a rocket? There is only one company that has successfully accomplished substantial reusability of such a rocket which is SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. The company just received funding via SPAC to go public to fund development of its new medium lift rocket (Neutron Rocket) which is expected to complete by 2024. They currently have a small rocket (Electron Rocket) and have had over 20+ successful launches to orbit and have deployed over 100 satellites. Rocket Lab is a rocket company that is working on building a reusable medium lift rocket. Note, this is not financial advice, I am an ape and a moron.🍌

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