{"id":123571,"date":"2021-06-08T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/relativity-has-a-bold-plan-to-take-on-spacex-and-investors-are-buying-it"},"modified":"2021-06-08T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T18:26:11","slug":"relativity-has-a-bold-plan-to-take-on-spacex-and-investors-are-buying-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/relativity-has-a-bold-plan-to-take-on-spacex-and-investors-are-buying-it","title":{"rendered":"Relativity has a bold plan to take on SpaceX, and investors are buying it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/relativity-has-a-bold-plan-to-take-on-spacex-and-investors-are-buying-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to ice skate to where the puck is going,\u201d Ellis said, adding that Relativity wants to be similarly disruptive to SpaceX, but in its own way. \u201cWhat we keep hearing from customers is that they don\u2019t want just a single launch company that is, frankly, the only quickly moving, disruptive provider.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Powered by seven main engines, the Terran R vehicle will initially launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Relativity has set a goal to launch in 2024, and Ellis said the company has signed a binding contract for multiple launches with an \u201canchor customer\u201d he declined to name. Relativity has not publicly released a price for a launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to ice skate to where the puck is going,\u201d Ellis said, adding that Relativity wants to be similarly disruptive to SpaceX, but in its own way. \u201cWhat we keep hearing from customers is that they don\u2019t want just a single launch company that is, frankly, the only quickly moving, disruptive provider.\u201d Powered by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123571","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=123571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}