First stage destroyed during hot fire in Scotland
A hot-fire test of Rocket Factory Augsburg's RFA One ended in explosion at Scotland's SaxaVord spaceport.
The test was carried out at the Shetland site yesterday before a planned launch later this year but ended abruptly after the first stage exploded.that it was"far too soon to tell" when SaxaVord would be able to support another test or launch due to an ongoing investigation. The RFA One is a three-stage rocket capable of sending up to 1,300 kg to a 500 km Sun-synchronous orbit . Nine Helix engines power the first stage. In May, the companythe first hot-fire test of four Helix engines at SaxaVord. Yesterday's test was one of the last before a launch attempt.of the launch shows a horizontal jet of flame from the base of the rocket before the explosion, implying that one of the Helix engines might have given out during the test.
Last month, RFA announced that it had concluded acceptance testing of the second stage with a more than 400 seconds run time for the HelixVAC engine and shipped the stage off to SaxaVord. A SaxaVord spokesperson toldThere is something of a space race developing between European commercial launch providers. Until yesterday, RFA looked set to be the first to attempt an orbital launch. Other upcoming users of SaxaVord include Scotland-based Skyrora.
ABL Space Systems is also set to use the SaxaVord facility. However, its chances of a 2024 UK launch took a knock after a pre-flight static fire test of its RS1 rocket in the US resulted inBefore we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects?NASA pushes back missions to the ISS to buy time for Starliner analysis
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