El cohete Terran 1 de Relativity Space qued\u00f3 parado en la plataforma de lanzamiento despu\u00e9s de una serie de inconvenientes.\u00a0Alrededor del 85% de la masa del cohete de dos etapas de 110 pies de altura se fabric\u00f3 con una impresora 3D y podr\u00eda desempe\u00f1ar un papel clave en la reducci\u00f3n del costo de los viajes espaciales en el futuro.\u00a0Relativity dijo que hasta el 95% de los futuros cohetes podr\u00edan fabricarse con una impresora 3D.<\/p>\n
The launch of a rocket made almost entirely from 3D-printed parts was aborted within a half-second of liftoff Saturday, just days after a previous attempt was scrubbed.<\/p>\n
Relativity Space’s rocket Terran 1 was left standing on the launch pad after a series of aborts, the company said in a statement on Twitter around 4:34 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n
The company said the first abort pertained to a “corner case in the stage separation automation” that “properly aborted” within a second of liftoff.<\/p>\n
Relativity Space said that the team pushed an update to the vehicle automation and successfully recycled the vehicle for an instantaneous launch window at 4 p.m. EST, the last minute the rocket could have possibly launched after a three-hour launch window.<\/p>\n
An automated abort was triggered around T-45 seconds during that instantaneous launch window because fuel pressure for the rocket’s second stage was one pound-per-square-inch low.<\/p>\n
“The team went HARD today and we intend to do so during our next attempt,” the company said. “More to come on the new launch date and window soon.”<\/p>\n
The aborts came after the rocket was expected to lift off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday before the operation was scrubbed due to a series of automatic aborts within two minutes of launching.<\/p>\n
Some 85% of the mass of the 110-foot tall, two-stage rocket was made by a 3D printer and could play a key role in driving down the cost of space travel in the future. Relativity said up to 95% of future rockets could be made with a 3D printer.<\/p>\n