Blue Origin scores first major national security launch deal

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Scout Space’s ‘Owlet’ smallsat mission would be the third launch of ABL’s RS1 rocket

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Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spaceplane conducted its final commercial mission June 8, taking a Turkish researcher and three private astronauts on a suborbital spaceflight.

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Planet’s first hyperspectral satellite is ready for launch to help push the Earth observation operator to profitability by early next year.

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The underlying math of SpaceX's business model suggests that the company is selling Falcon launches at a major markup.

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Chinese commercial company Space Pioneer has secured fresh funding for its reusable Tianlong-3 rocket, targeting launch contracts for megaconstellation plans.

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SpaceX conducted the fourth test flight of its Starship launch system June 6, with both the Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage making it back to the surface intact.

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The European Space Agency and its partners have announced a July 9 launch date for the first Ariane 6 rocket.

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The agreement includes 15 firm launches as well as options for an additional 10 missions

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Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is in orbit on its first crewed flight after two recent launch scrubs and years of development delays.

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A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the second of a pair of NASA cubesats designed to monitor infrared emissions at the Earth’s poles.

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NASA and Boeing have reset the launch of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for June 5 after United Launch Alliance fixed a computer problem that scrubbed the previous launch attempt.

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A last-minute problem scrubbed the Atlas 5 launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on its first crewed flight June 1.

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NASA and Boeing say they are ready for another attempt to launch the company’s CST-100 Starliner with two NASA astronauts on board after additional reviews of the spacecraft’s parachutes and a last-minute cargo swap.

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China has carried out a pair of solid rocket launches and sent a communications satellite towards geostationary orbit for Pakistan.

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The European Space Agency says a successful test firing of a redesigned Vega C solid rocket motor is a major step towards returning the rocket to flight by the end of the year.

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A Falcon 9 successfully launched an Earth science mission for Europe and Japan May 28 as part of the European Space Agency’s ongoing, if temporary, reliance on SpaceX for space access.

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Chinese rocket company Deep Blue Aerospace has secured new funding for its reusable rocket plans, with its first launch set for later this year.

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Rocket Lab launched the first of two NASA Earth science cubesats on an Electron rocket May 25, exactly seven years after the company’s first launch.

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SpaceX has set a June 5 launch date for its next Starship integrated test flight, with a focus on demonstrating the ability to bring both stages of the vehicle back intact.

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The classified mission, designated NROL-146, was SpaceX’s 52nd launch of the year

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The Dominican Republic has kicked off a study into the feasibility of setting up a commercial spaceport near the equator.

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NASA and Boeing have further delayed the launch of a crewed test flight of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, this time not offering a new launch date as work to resolve a helium leak continues.

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As SpaceX prepares for its next Starship test flight, the company is also working to scale up facilities in Texas to build and launch those vehicles.

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