RS1 first stage
The interior of the first stage of the first RS1 rocket. ABL Space Systems plans to launch its RS1 rocket for the first time by the end of the year from Alaska.

Small launch vehicle developer ABL Space Systems has won a contract to launch a NASA technology demonstration spacecraft in 2023.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...