Company - Relativity Space
Product/Service - Stargate, Terran-R, Terran-1
- Classification
- Surface Habitats & Structures
- Category
- Surface Habitats
Space Construction Company
Commercial Space Station
In-Space Manufacturing
- Fields
- Space Construction Company
Additive Manufacturing (3D printing)
- Status
- Concept, Development
- First launch
- 2026
- His goal is similar to Elon Musk’s with SpaceX, although Relativity isn’t focused on launching people. Instead, Ellis sees Relativity helping build on Mars by initially sending a small 3D-printer for “the first object manufactured on another planet by humanity,” which is “the future that we’re going towards.”
- To Ellis, additive manufacturing is “inevitably required to build an industrial base on Mars.
Relativity Space submitted a proposal for NASA's Commercial Space Station CLD Program. The company had not disclosed plans for a commercial space station and the source selection statement offers few details beyond a “reusable and returnable lab with a return capability.” Tim Ellis, chief executive of Relativity, told SpaceNews Jan. 31 that the company has a “very early concept” on how the upper stage of its Terran R vehicle could be used as a commercial LEO destination, but declined to go into details.
With Terran-R now having a smaller focus on additive manufacturing, the 3D printing on Mars visions are unknown as of early 2024.
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