Startup Relativity Space conducted their first launch as a company from LC-16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on March 23, 2023.

The boost phase was successful, they had successful staging, but problems with the second stage prevented the company from achieving orbit on its first try. No matter, they successfully launched, proved that additive manufacturing (3-D printing) can withstand the dynamics and pressures of flight and also proved that their new methane-fueled engines for the first stage of their rocket performed to spec.

Here is a long exposure of the rocket’s flight, as seen from the Launch Viewing area at Sands Space History Museum in Cape Canaveral.