// LAUNCH VESSEL — Reusable medium-lift
Ascend-1
BETAThe rideshare workhorse.
A two-stage, reusable medium-lift vehicle — the rideshare and dedicated-smallsat workhorse.
// OVERVIEW
Ascend-1 is Segal's own ride to orbit: a two-stage, reusable medium-lift vehicle sized for rideshare manifests and dedicated smallsat missions, flying on a weekly cadence.
First-stage reuse drives the cost per kilogram down and the cadence up, so a constellation deploys on a schedule instead of a waiting list.
// DATASHEETCONFIRM
- Payload (LEO)
- ~3,500 kg
- Reuse
- First stage, ~20 flights
- Cadence
- Weekly
- Fairing
- 3.2 m
- Stages
- Two
- SSO
- ~2,800 kg
// KEY FEATURES
01
Reusable first stage
Roughly twenty flights per booster drives cost down.
02
Weekly cadence
Deploy constellations on a schedule, not a waiting list.
03
Rideshare-ready
Standard ports and orbits for shared and dedicated smallsat manifests.
// RELATED
Tell us the objective. We'll fly the rest.
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