Frank Calvelli (Assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration Calvelli, the former principal deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office, is in charge of buying the nation's space systems. In that role, his challenge is to retain the startup culture of the Space Development Agency while speeding up replacement programs for large legacy systems. And he is set to launch the next competition for national security space launches in 2023.Tim Ellis Relativity Space CEO Relativity Space is aiming to launch its Terran 1 rocket on its first voyage in late January. Relativity has heavily relied upon proprietary 3D printers to build the rocket, and a successful launch would help prove the concept. The startup says it can print rockets with 100 times fewer parts than traditional launch vehicles and do it in 60 days as opposed to 18 months or longer.
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