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Tim Ellis earned BS and MS degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, where he held leadership roles at the USC Rocket Propulsion Lab and helped launch the first student-designed and -built rocket into space. During college he completed three internships at Blue Origin, then joined the company full-time as a propulsion development engineer, working on Crew Capsule RCS thrusters, the BE-4 engine, and New Glenn, and is credited with bringing metal 3D printing in-house at Blue Origin. In 2015 he left to co-found Relativity Space with USC classmate Jordan Noone, pursuing the goal of building rockets with large-scale metal 3D printing. Ellis served as CEO until Eric Schmidt took over the role in March 2025; he remains on the board.
Jordan Noone studied aerospace engineering at the University of Southern California, where he led the USC Rocket Propulsion Lab and became the youngest individual to receive FAA clearance to fly a rocket to space. He interned with Blue Origin's propulsion group after his junior year and went on to work as a propulsion engineer at SpaceX before co-founding Relativity Space with classmate Tim Ellis in 2015, serving as the company's chief technology officer. After stepping back from a day-to-day role at Relativity, Noone became a general partner at the venture firm Embedded Ventures, which he co-founded to invest in dual-use and aerospace startups.
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Two-stage, partially reusable medium-lift launch vehicle powered by 13 Aeon R liquid-oxygen-methane engines, targeting the LEO constellation market with a first launch from Cape Canaveral. Primary structures use friction-stir-welded aluminum, while engines are manufactured via Relativity's Stargate powder-bed-fusion and wire-arc additive platforms, enabling a fast print-to-build cycle. Terran R is positioned as a Falcon 9-class competitor, and Relativity has booked nearly $3B in launch contracts against it as of 2025.
Proprietary large-scale metal 3D printing system combining laser powder bed fusion and wire-arc additive manufacturing to produce rocket engine and structural components. It is designed to cut part count from tens of thousands to hundreds and compress production lead times from years to weeks. Stargate systems at Relativity's Long Beach factory manufacture Aeon R engines and structural hardware for Terran R, demonstrating factory-scale additive manufacturing applied directly to aerospace production.
14 patents on file, but none with both an extractable figure and an abstract on Google Patents yet.
