Last summer in July 2024, California-based ABL Space Systems was doing a test on its RS1 rocket, in preparation for its planned launch from the state-owned spaceport near Narrow Cape. The test ...

ABL announced its pivot from satellite launch services to missile defense in November, four months after the company's second RS1 rocket was destroyed on the launch pad during ground testing.

The company, founded in 2017 in El Segundo, California, initially sought to disrupt the small satellite launch market with its RS1 rocket, a low-cost, rapidly deployable vehicle designed to be ...

At the end of last year, the Kuiper Project announced plans for the launch of two satellite prototypes in 2022 from Florida with ABL Space Systems' new RS1 rocket.

Project Kuiper plans to launch two prototype missions later this year on ABL Space Systems' RS1 rocket. Amazon will invest over $10 billion in its satellite internet network. Meanwhile ...