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Relativity Space

United States of America · Commercial · EST. 2015

Relativity Space is a commercial launch operator based in United States of America, founded in 2015. It has flown 1 launches under its own name. 0 succeeded and 1 failed, a success rate of 0.0%. Its next launch is Terran R | Intelsat-1, from Launch Complex 16, set for 2026.

SourceLAUNCH LIBRARY 2
Window reaches2039-12-31 00:00:00Z
Page generated2026-11-11 07:50:16Z

Flight record

Launch statistics

ON RECORD
Total launches1
Successful0
Failed1
Success rate0.0%
Consecutive successes0
Scheduled4
AdministratorCEO: Tim Ellis
Founded2015

These are launches under RS’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library. They don’t count missions or payloads. A spacecraft that flew on someone else’s rocket counts for the operator that flew it.

Operator or customer

An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and the launch schedule filters by operator. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Some organisations are both. Below, RS is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.

Manifest role

LIVE COUNT
Flying as operator4
Named as customer0
Window reaches2039-12-31 00:00:00Z
Scheduled (register total)4

No scheduled flight names RS with someone else flying it.

How we count it: a scheduled launch counts as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation is in the launch name, mission name or programme, and someone else is flying it. We don’t search mission descriptions, and we only see the schedule as far as it goes, which is 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. So treat both counts as a minimum.

About RS

Relativity Space is an American aerospace manufacturing company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 2015 by Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone. Relativity Space is developing manufacturing technologies, launch vehicles and rocket engines for commercial orbital launch services.

Upcoming launches

The label on each flight says how exact its launch time is. If the date is only known to the month, you’ll see the month and no countdown. A weather go-probability only shows when Launch Library has one for that flight. EveryLaunch doesn’t work it out.

RS in the archive

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

A Sunny Outlook for Weather on Exoplanets Artist Concept
A Sunny Outlook for Weather on Exoplanets Artist ConceptNASA / JPL · public domainNASA ↗
Bulgeless Galaxy Hides Black Hole
Bulgeless Galaxy Hides Black HoleNASA / JPL · public domainNASA ↗
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - Workers in the NASA spacecraft processing facility on North Vandenberg Air Force Base work on a solar array panel to be installed on the Gravity Probe B spacecraft. Installing each array is a 3-day process and includes a functional deployment test. The Gravity Probe B mission is a relativity experiment developed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Stanford University and Lockheed Martin. The spacecraft will test two extraordinary predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity that he advanced in 1916: the geodetic effect (how space and time are warped by the presence of the Earth) and frame dragging (how Earth’s rotation drags space and time around with it). Gravity Probe B consists of four sophisticated gyroscopes that will provide an almost perfect space-time reference system. The mission will look in a precision manner for tiny changes in the direction of spin.
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - Workers in the NASA spacecraft processing facility on North Vandenberg Air Force Base work on a solar array panel to be installed on the Gravity Probe B spacecraft. Installing each array is a 3-day process and includes a functional deployment test. The Gravity Probe B mission is a relativity experiment developed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Stanford University and Lockheed Martin. The spacecraft will test two extraordinary predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity that he advanced in 1916: the geodetic effect (how space and time are warped by the presence of the Earth) and frame dragging (how Earth’s rotation drags space and time around with it). Gravity Probe B consists of four sophisticated gyroscopes that will provide an almost perfect space-time reference system. The mission will look in a precision manner for tiny changes in the direction of spin.NASA / KSC · public domainNASA ↗

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Common questions

How many launches has Relativity Space flown?
Relativity Space has flown 1 launches under its own name. 0 succeeded and 1 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
What is Relativity Space's success rate?
0.0%. That's 0 successful flights out of 1 attempts.
When is Relativity Space's next launch?
Terran R | Intelsat-1, set for 2026 from Launch Complex 16. Launch Library files only the year, so the date is a placeholder. Launch times are no-earlier-than targets and can move.
Does Relativity Space fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
Relativity Space has flown 1 launches under its own name. It's the operator on 4 scheduled flights. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule only lists operators, so a well-known agency can own a mission and still not show up there.
Where is Relativity Space based?
United States of America. Launch Library lists it as a commercial operator, founded in 2015.