The RV fleet: our roadmap to reusable launch
The Reusable Sounding Rocket, Small RLV and Medium RLV are not three products. They are three steps of one argument: that orbit can become a schedule instead of a privilege.
One architecture, three steps
The Reusable Sounding Rocket proves the propulsion and recovery basics at the smallest useful scale. The Small RLV carries that architecture into a heavier, higher-energy regime. The Medium RLV is the vehicle the programme is ultimately built around.
Each vehicle reuses the engine family, avionics approach and structural philosophy of the one before it. Nothing is restarted from zero.
Why reusability first
A vehicle you throw away sets a floor on price and a ceiling on cadence. Designing for recovery from the first sketch is harder early and cheaper forever — and cadence, not headline payload mass, is what unlocks real demand.
Design targets, not promises
Payload, cadence and first-flight windows published on this site are design targets for an active programme. They move as test data comes in, and we would rather say so than quietly restate them later.
