Rocket Report: SpaceX may see revenue spike in 2023; Terran 1 gets a date

Enlarge / Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket may be less than two weeks away from its debut launch. (credit: Relativity Space)

Welcome to Edition 5.27 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week is that Relativity Space got its launch license for a debut flight from Cape Canaveral in Florida. In less than two weeks, I’m excited to see how far this methalox rocket makes it on its first foray off the planet.

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Terran 1 gets a launch date. On Wednesday Relativity Space announced that it had secured a launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration for the debut launch of its Terran 1 rocket. The mission, called GLHF (good luck, have fun), will take flight from Launch Complex 16 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch window opens at 1 pm ET (18:00 UTC) on March 8. Because this is a test flight, the mission will not include a customer payload. It will be streamed live.