{"id":160873,"date":"2023-03-23T16:25:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T21:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/relativitys-first-3d-printed-rocket-launches-successfully-but-fails-to-reach-orbit"},"modified":"2023-03-23T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T21:25:16","slug":"relativitys-first-3d-printed-rocket-launches-successfully-but-fails-to-reach-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/relativitys-first-3d-printed-rocket-launches-successfully-but-fails-to-reach-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Relativity\u2019s first 3D-printed rocket launches successfully but fails to reach orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/relativitys-first-3d-printed-rocket-launches-successfully-but-fails-to-reach-orbit3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Relativity Space, a 3D-printing specialist, launched the inaugural flight of its Terran 1 rocket late on Wednesday night, which successfully met some mission objectives before failing to reach orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Terran 1 lifted off from LC-16, a launchpad at the U.S. Space Force\u2019s facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and flew for about three minutes. While the rocket cleared a key objective \u2014 passing the point of maximum atmospheric pressure during an orbital launch, known as Max Q \u2014 its engine sputtered and shut down early, shortly after the second stage separated from the first stage, which is the larger, lower portion of the rocket known as the booster.<\/p>\n<p>Relativity launch director Clay Walker confirmed that there was an \u201canomaly\u201d with the upper stage. The company said it will give \u201cupdates over the coming days\u201d after analyzing flight data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relativity Space, a 3D-printing specialist, launched the inaugural flight of its Terran 1 rocket late on Wednesday night, which successfully met some mission objectives before failing to reach orbit. Terran 1 lifted off from LC-16, a launchpad at the U.S. Space Force\u2019s facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and flew for about three minutes. While the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160873","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=160873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}