: Launcher sign agreement with SpaceX to launch three Orbiter space tugs #IndiaNEWS #Space The Startup Launcher Space has officially announced that it has signed a multi-launch agreement with SpaceX

Launcher sign agreement with SpaceX to launch three Orbiter space tugs #IndiaNEWS #Space
The Startup Launcher Space has officially announced that it has signed a multi-launch agreement with SpaceX to launch at least three more ‘Orbiter’ space tugs, meaning that the company will have a payload on every dedicated SpaceX rideshare launch scheduled from Q4 2022 to the end of 2023.

The information was revealed in a Twitter post by Launcher, which reads:

Launcher signed a multi-launch agreement with SpaceX. Orbiter will fly on every 2023 SpaceX Rideshare mission to SSO. Book your sat ride to a customized orbit: t. co/tLao7wrs3T . t. co/3WKhm6kbemReported by @SpaceNews_Inc : t. co/sjEI5hossx pic. twitter. com/iMDMCbmOAM— LΛUNCHER (@launcher) February 7, 2022

After launching its third dedicated rideshare trip in January 2022, SpaceX plans to fly two more flights in the first part of the year, Transporter -4 and -5.

Launcher launched its Orbiter spacecraft program in October 2021, with plans to manifest the first vehicle on a SpaceX rideshare mission most likely Transporter-6 by October 2022.

For the past two and a half years, SpaceXs Smallsat Rideshare Program, which was announced in the summer of 2019, has provided one of the simplest and most affordable tickets to space.

Following a few Starlink rideshare missions in 2020, SpaceX began launching dedicated Transporter missions in January 2021, delivering more than 320 client satellites and payloads to orbit since then.

SpaceX has been able to streamline the arduous process of coordinating large-scale ridesharing missions by treating each Transporter trip like public transportation and allowing third-party launch servicers to participate.

Most crucially, because of the Falcon 9 rockets exceptional affordability, SpaceX has made a significant portion of the benefits available to rideshare customers by charging just million per 200-kilogram slot and a flat ,000 for each additional kilogram.

That may appear absurd to someone inexperienced with the expense of spaceflight, but its extremely economical and significantly less expensive than any promoted option.

The cheapest dedicated smallsat launch company, Astra Space, sells a Rocket 3 vehicle capable of launching around 50 kilograms (110 lb) to a comparable orbit for . 5 million, or ,000 per kilogram.

However, Rocket 3 has only completed one successful launch. The more affordable Electron rocket from Rocket Lab costs at least . 5 million for 200 kilos to sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) or ,500 per kilogram.

Nonetheless, rideshares single most critical flaw a one-size-fits-all orbit persists. Every cargo launched on Transporter flights ends up in the same beginning orbit, barring a significantly more complicated and expensive route that would necessitate the upper stage of the Falcon 9 being re-ignited numerous times.