Since late 2017, Solis carried out launch tests almost every day, greatly improving upon the days of preparation once required for test launches into space. This allowed them to reroute one of their launch vehicles for Raiden in 2018, with little issue, so long as it did not break the atmosphere, with the flight only traveling as far as the thermosphere. Raiden utilized the launch from Solis's facility to make a rapid flight into Pakistan. They also had a contract with NASA's C3PO and COTS divisions to perfect their RLVs to allow for space tourism, the latter for handling space deliveries to the International Space Station for the most part, as the costs were decreasing for space travel and people having a vested interest in industrial zero-gravity experiments, with Sunny and Raiden also s