FLORIDA – Race to Mars increasingly crowded, after two aerospace startups in California, Relativity Space and Impulse Space, announced a cooperation agreement to launch the first commercial mission to the Red planet in 2024. Both companies have ambitions to break the establishment. SpaceX the first to launch a long-term mission to build human settlements on Mars.
According to a press release released on Tuesday 19 July 2022, Relativity Space will provide a reusable, 3D-printed Terran R rocket for the launch of a mission to Mars. Meanwhile, Impulse Space will provide a Mars Cruise Vehicle and a Mars Lander to place equipment on the surface of Mars.
The Space Relativity Terran R rocket will launch the Impulse Space lander to Mars in 2024 if all goes well. The 2024 timeline for this proposed mission would put Relativity Space and Impulse Space ahead of Elon Musk’s company, which could land a commercial mission on Mars by the end of the decade.
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According to the company’s President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX has not yet set an exact date for its planned Mars voyage. If Relativity and Impulse can carry out their plans, they may become the first commercial space companies to reach the Red Planet.
However, it is important to note that no company has put a single payload into space to date. That doesn’t mean they haven’t laid the groundwork.
Relativity Space was founded in 2015 and has since raised over $1 billion in funding. The company has pioneered the use of metal 3D printers to manufacture its fuselage and rocket engines. Relativity’s claimed manufacturing approach reduces supply chain complexity and development schedules.
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Space Relativity currently operates or is developing several launch facilities and associated infrastructure at several US Air Force and NASA installations. While this construction makes it clear that Relativity Space intends to become a major player in the commercial launch services industry, it has yet to put rockets into space. Mission 2024 will be the first launch of the Terran R.
Impulse Space was founded in 2021 and currently has 40 employees. According to their LinkedIn page, the company intends to enable cheap and agile delivery of long-distance space payloads so customers can access any orbit or even reach other worlds.
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