Space Rider aims to provide Europe with an affordable, independent, reusable end-to-end integrated space transportation system for routine access and return from low orbit.
Created: 2018-11-01
Updated: 2023-03-04
Company - Space Rider (ESA)
Product/Service - Space Rider
- Classification
- Cargo Transportation & Landers
- Category
- Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)
Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)
- Fields
- Reusable
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2024
- Partners
- Thales Alenia, Avio
It will transport payloads for an array of applications, orbit altitudes and inclinations.
Space Rider is fully integrated with Vega-C to provide a space laboratory for payloads to operate in orbit for a variety of applications in missions lasting about two months.
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