Rocket Report: SpaceX may lease High Bay 1 in the VAB; China to fight price war

Enlarge / Starship and Super Heavy are ready to fly, with Starhopper in the foreground for scale. (credit: SpaceX)

Welcome to Edition 5.33 of the Rocket Report! Phew, there is a lot going on this week. The “Heavy rockets” section of this week’s report is loaded with news this week about Starship, New Glenn, and Vulcan. Be sure to check it out. And maybe also reserve some time your calendars Monday morning.

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Relativity Space retires Terran 1, goes bigger. This may be one of the final times that Relativity Space falls under the “small rocket” category in this report. Why? Because Relativity Space made a flurry of announcements on Wednesday about its past and future, including the retirement of its Terran 1 rocket after just a single launch attempt last month. “Terran 1 was always meant to develop technologies that were pushing the bounds for what was needed for Terran R,” the company’s chief executive, Tim Ellis, told Ars.