Report outlines lessons learned from first U.K. launch (spacenews.com)
China launches large classified optical satellite towards geostationary orbit (spacenews.com)
China’s reusable rocket race heats up with new hop test (spacenews.com)
Northrop Grumman tests new solid rocket motor technologies (spacenews.com)
Space Development Agency aims high for 2024 after strong 2023 start (spacenews.com)
The Space Development Agency has set its sights on an ambitious launch schedule for 2024 following two successful launches this year that marked steady progress for the fledgling U.S. Space Force agency....
Egypt joins China's ILRS moon base initiative (spacenews.com)
Seems like countries are rapidly choosing sides between China’s ILRS and the USA’s Artemis Accords. I hope the 2030s are as exciting a space race as the Apollo era!
Capella to use SpaceX for two Acadia satellite launches (spacenews.com)
China launches internet technology test satellite from sea barge (spacenews.com)
HELSINKI — China launched a new internet technology experiment satellite from a sea platform Tuesday, apparently continuing tests for a low Earth orbit megaconstellation....
Hubble glitch renews talk about private servicing mission (spacenews.com)
NASA announced Nov. 29 that Hubble was in a safe mode because of a problem with one of its three operational gyroscopes. That gyro first triggered a safe mode Nov. 19 when it provided what NASA described as faulty readings. Spacecraft controllers restored operations of Hubble, only to see problems again Nov. 21 and 23....
Ursa Major closes $138 million Series D and D-1 financings (spacenews.com)
Shanghai to foster commercial space ecosystem (spacenews.com)
China is working on a design for a reusable air-launched orbital rocket (spacenews.com)
Satellite imagery reveals explosion at China’s Jiuquan spaceport (spacenews.com)
Arctic broadband satellites complete key tests ahead of mid-2024 launch (spacenews.com)
Firefly to launch a Lockheed Martin satellite antenna demonstration (spacenews.com)
Astra secures $2.7 million in additional financing (spacenews.com)
China conducts launch to test satellite internet capabilities (spacenews.com)
HELSINKI — China sent an undisclosed number of satellites into orbit Thursday to test satellite internet technologies....
China’s Landspace aims to build a stainless steel rocket (spacenews.com)
HELSINKI — Chinese launch startup Landspace has unveiled plans to develop a reusable stainless steel rocket....
SaxaVord Spaceport to host HyImpulse orbital rocket launches (spacenews.com)
The UK’s SaxaVord Spaceport plans host orbital launches of HyImpulse Technologies rocket from late 2025....
White House proposal would split mission authorization between Commerce and Transportation (spacenews.com)
Transportation Department official suggests industry help pay for FAA commercial space office (spacenews.com)
Airbus and Voyager sign agreement with ESA on Starlab commercial space station (spacenews.com)
Rocket Lab to launch hypersonic test vehicle for the Defense Innovation Unit (spacenews.com)
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab announced a new mission for its suborbital launch vehicle — a 3D-printed hypersonic drone built by Australia’s Hypersonix for the U.S. Defense Department....
Sierra Space completes first Dream Chaser (spacenews.com)
The company announced Nov. 2 the completion of the first Dream Chaser, named Tenacity, at its facility in Louisville, Colorado. The vehicle will be shipped in the “coming weeks” to NASA’s Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility, the former Plum Brook Facility, in Ohio for environmental testing....
Long March 3B launches ChinaSat-6E communications satellite (spacenews.com)
