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An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is a modified ocean-going barge equipped with propulsion systems to maintain precise position and a large landing platform. SpaceX developed these vessels to recover the first stage (also called the booster) of its launch vehicles. By recovering and reusing these boosters, SpaceX has significantly ...
ASDS may refer to: Autonomous spaceport drone ship, a mobile rocket landing platform; Advanced SEAL Delivery System, a former U.S. submarine
An autonomous spaceport drone ship or ASDS, a self-propelled sea-going barge used by SpaceX as a sea-borne rocket landing platform An unmanned surface vehicle , any unpiloted boat An unmanned underwater vehicle , any unpiloted sub
A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching or receiving spacecraft, by analogy to a seaport for ships or an airport for aircraft.The word spaceport, and even more so cosmodrome, has traditionally been used for sites capable of launching spacecraft into orbit around Earth or on interplanetary trajectories. [1]
Gravity-1 launch in January 2024. A floating launch vehicle operations platform is a marine vessel used for launch or landing operations of an orbital launch vehicle by a launch service provider: putting satellites into orbit around Earth or another celestial body, or recovering first-stage boosters from orbital-class flights by making a propulsive landing on the platform.
SpinLaunch is a spaceflight technology development company working on mass accelerator technology to move payloads to space. [3] As of September 2022, the company has raised US$150 million in funding, with investors including Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, Airbus Ventures, ATW Partners, Catapult Ventures, Lauder Partners, John Doerr, and the Byers Family.
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RS1 crashed down near the launch pad, damaging infrastructure at the Pacific Spaceport Complex. [9] The second attempt at launch failed on July 19, 2024 due to a static fire testing failure. [ 10 ] After the second flight failure, ABL decided to terminate their commercial launch program, and instead focusing on turning RS1 into a missile ...