Florida’s Space Coast could introduce some new names and set new records this year.
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“How many can we sustain? We’re building and investing, not just us alone, but the Space Force and NASA,” he said. “And commercial contractors are investing in infrastructure that should be able to support 100 launches a year. That was our plan. I think we want the capability to be able to do two, two-plus a week.”
Chances to watch the rocket fly can come as early as January with the planned USSF-67 mission for the Space Force. SpaceX also has a second Space Force mission and launch of a commercial satellite aboard its heavy-lift rocket expected in the first half of the year, along with an October liftoff of the delayed NASA Psyche probe to explore a distant asteroid.
For 2023, Axiom-2 will feature former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, also now employed by Axiom Space. The missions are laying the groundwork for Axiom Space to send up its own modules to attach to the ISS and eventually become its own free-standing commercial space station. ULA meanwhile is expected to finally bring its new Vulcan Centaur rocket to market with an initial launch expected in early 2023. It’s the first of two certification flights on tap before ULA’s three planned launches for the Department of Defense in 2023. Already delayed from 2021, ULA was waiting on engines for the new rocket from Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. It uses two of the new BE-4 engines, which were finally delivered and installed on the first Vulcan rocket in November.
Both ULA and Blue Origin, though, will be in need of a ramped-up engine supply as both are customers of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet satellite plan, which has as many as 83 launches planned by 2029 to send the majority of 3,236 satellites into orbit that will create a product similar to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation.
Terran 1 rocket in the Transporter Erector at Launch Complex 16 — Tour of Relativity Space at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on Dec. 6, 2022. Their 3D printed rocket will be launching soon from LC-16.
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