November 17th 2024 | Press Release

ASX Space are happy to announce their return to the industry after a year of inactivity, we will talk about everything that we plan on doing going forward, so without further ado, lets dive right into it.

Upgraded Archmage Rocket

Previously named Messier, this vehicle will become the premiere launch vehicle that will suit your needs for your payload. Archmage use's Liquid Oxygen (LOX) and Liquid Methane (LCH4) as it's propellants. It makes use of 4 Spitfire Methane engines that have 351kn each (making a combined thrust of 1,404kn in total), Spitfire has a ISP of 398s on the first stage with a burn time of 2 minutes, while the second stage has a thrust of 303kn and an ISP of 343s, with a recorded burn time of 4 minutes.

Archmage Overview & Specifications:

Archmage is ASX's 2 Stage Small-Lift launcher designed and developed by ASX for the high-cadence, no-fuss future of orbital launches. We break the trade-off between cost, reliability and flexibility. With Archmage being upgraded brings new capabilities to its status, Archmage can carry the following as listed below:

Overview:

Height: 35.1m

Width: 2.6m

Payload to LDO: 1,500kg (Minimum Altitude 200 km/Maximum Altitude 2000 km for LDO)

Payload to JSO: 1,300kg (Minimum 600km, Max 800km for JSO)

Payload to Polar: 1,300kg (Minimum 600km, Max 800km for Polar)

ASX plans on launching Archmage, 2 times a week and are committing to a launch next month, we recently leased a pad from the FIS Launch Center controlled by ISX in which ASX will use for future rockets such as Archmage and so on.

Pad 1 to the left will be ASX's permanent launch pad.

Aerial View of the Pad (Credits: Nomad)

Not only do we plan on leasing the site, but we also plan on buying 50 Halo OTV's from ISX which will help in our launch services, we are happy to be the first launch company outside of ISX to use their Orbital Transfer Vehicles.

Halo OTV transporting 4 satellites

And that's it, if you have any questions, as them down below! Thanks for reading