{"id":109069,"date":"2020-06-24T15:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T22:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/3d-rocket-printer-relativity-signs-deal-with-iridium-and-plans-to-build-a-california-launchpad"},"modified":"2020-06-24T15:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T22:03:57","slug":"3d-rocket-printer-relativity-signs-deal-with-iridium-and-plans-to-build-a-california-launchpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/3d-rocket-printer-relativity-signs-deal-with-iridium-and-plans-to-build-a-california-launchpad","title":{"rendered":"3D rocket printer Relativity signs deal with Iridium and plans to build a California launchpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-rocket-printer-relativity-signs-deal-with-iridium-and-plans-to-build-a-california-launchpad2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Relativity Space, a growing startup that aims to almost entirely 3D-print rockets, on Wednesday announced it struck another major launch deal, as well as an agreement with the U.S. Air Force, to build a launchpad on the California coastline.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles-based rocket builder signed an agreement with satellite operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=IRDM\">Iridium Communications<\/a>, to launch up to six satellites as needed as early as 2023. Over the course of more than half a dozen launches with SpaceX, Iridium completed its second-generation satellite constellation in January 2019, with 66 operational satellites and 9 spares in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The Iridium deal means Relativity now has agreements to launch for five different companies, having previously announced contracts with Canadian satellite communications operator Telesat, California-based Momentus, Thai satellite broadband company mu Space and Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. All the contracts have remarkably come before Relativity\u2019s first launch, which is scheduled to happen before the end of 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relativity Space, a growing startup that aims to almost entirely 3D-print rockets, on Wednesday announced it struck another major launch deal, as well as an agreement with the U.S. Air Force, to build a launchpad on the California coastline. The Los Angeles-based rocket builder signed an agreement with satellite operator Iridium Communications, to launch up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}