Rocket Factory - RFA One

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• Rocket Factory Plans 2022 Maiden Launch from Andøya Space Site in Norway.
• Engine technology from Ukraine.
• Payload increased from 200 kg to 1200 kg.
• First and second of sceptical articles in Golem from March 2021.
• OHB Sweden signs contract with RFA for third stage avionics.
• RFA wins 11 million Euros in the DLR microlauncher competition.
• Spaceflight signed a launch contract that will see RFA take the Seattle company’s Sherpa space tug to orbit.
• Launch service provider Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) and SaxaVord Spaceport have today announced their launch operations partnership, 2023-01-11.
• Digantara inked a deal with RFA to deepen ties between the two companies. This included an agreement to launch two Digantara SSA birds on RFA ONE.
• OHB stepping back on RFA investment. The German multinational technology firm OHB has been a key investor in launch startup Rocket Factory Augsburg, or RFA, The Augsburger reports. However, in its recently released annual report, OHB said it wanted to no longer hold a majority stake in RFA. The annual report said that OHB was looking to sell a "significant stake" of its shares in RFA. At the time, OHB owned 57 percent of the company.
• Will build a dedicated launch pad at the Guiana Space Center (GSC) in French Guiana, with launches commencing in 2025.
•  In June 2023, RFA became the first company in Europe to hot fire a complete staged combustion engine upper stage over its entire flight duration.
• "I strongly believe in the Rocket Factory – withdrawal is out of the question", 2023-03-20
• The UK Space Agency is providing £3.5 million ($4.3 million) to help Germany’s Rocket Factory Augsburg prepare for its maiden flight next year from SaxaVord Spaceport, located in Scotland’s Shetland Islands. The RFA ONE is designed to lift 450 kilograms to geostationary transfer orbit, and the company has said its first flight would carry a research mission for Ukraine-based Lunar Research Service.  SpaceNews, 2023-10-26.
• First RFA launch in a “matter of weeks”, 2024-08-17. OHB owns nearly 65% of RFA.
• RFA First-Stage Engine Explodes During Hot Fire Test, 2024-08-19.
• RFA pushes maiden flight to 2025 after launchpad explosion, 2024-08-23. “We won’t be firing another first stage this year and the first test flight has also been postponed until next year,” RFA ONE’s fairing, second and third stages are unaffected and awaiting integration in Saxaford for their debut next year.
• ESA Awards €44.2M in Funding to Four European Rocket Builders, 2024-11-19.
• Germany Commits €95M More to Isar, RFA, and HyImpulse, 2024-12-20.
• RFA and SaxaVord target UK’s first vertical orbital launch, 2025-04-11.
  • The finished vehicle will deliver around 1,300 kg to sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), though the initial version – or minimum viable product – is a little shorter with less propellant and is instead capable of placing roughly 500 kg of payload into SSO.
  • Expects its maiden launch between six and eight months from now.
• Rocket Factory Augsburg Names Indulis Kalnins as New CEO, 2025-04-14.