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Rocket Factory Augsburg

Active Launch Services Private HQ: Augsburg, Germany Founded 2018

German small-launch startup developing RFA ONE, a kerosene-LOX staged-combustion launcher targeting ~1.6t to SSO. Backed by OHB SE; SaxaVord Spaceport (Shetland) primary launch site. Hot-fire stage anomaly on test stand August 2024 set the program back; return-to-flight pending.

49.5
ARI Composite
Moderate Risk
#14 of 30
Peer Rank
Launch cohort
1
Total Launches
As lead operator
Estimated valuation
Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

49.5
ARI composite · Moderate Risk
Peer rank#14 of 30
Peer groupLaunch
Data coverage75%

FLEET COMPOSITION

Every vehicle this operator has flown. Linked profiles carry the full reliability + reuse + subsystem record.

Vehicle Class Launches Success rate Reuse
Rfa One 1

RECENT LAUNCHES

Date Mission Vehicle Orbit Outcome
Jun 30, 2026 Maiden Flight Rfa One SSO Delayed

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorLaunch Services
Rank within sector#14 of 30
Tracked peers30

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameRocket Factory Augsburg AG
OwnershipPrivate
HeadquartersAugsburg, Germany
CountryDE
Founded2018
FounderStefan Brieschenk, Hans Steininger
CEOStefan Brieschenk
ParentOHB SE
AliasesRFA, Rocket Factory Augsburg
Key programsRFA ONE
Gov customersDLR, Bundeswehr Cyber and Information Domain Service
IPO statusPrivately held (OHB subsidiary)

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Operator website + OHB investor communications.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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