Virgim Orbit bankrupt: the rocket bankruptcy thread

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Started by Legend, Aug 10, 2019, 05:09 AM

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Legend

in this economy loads of bankruptcies will occur.
Yup. Combine that with starship coming online and 2023/2024 will be a very bloody year for smallsat launchers. The industry loves redundancy though so it's hard to predict where the cutoff is. Here's a ranked list imo of the major players.


Rocket lab is doing great: List of Electron launches - Wikipedia

Virgin Orbit seems solid, but they are still pretty new: LauncherOne - Wikipedia

Relativity might be more bark than bite but they've convinced a lot of groups to sign launch contracts: Terran 1 - Wikipedia

Firefly had issues with Ukraine ownership yet still has a few launch contracts: Firefly Alpha - Wikipedia

ABL is virtually unknown but they have hardware ready for their first launch: ABL Space Systems - Wikipedia

Astra is actively dying but if they can stop blowing up rockets, they have a somewhat healthy manifest: List of Astra rocket launches - Wikipedia