China’s reusable rocket race heats up with new hop test (spacenews.com)
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!
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....
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)
Astra secures $2.7 million in additional financing (spacenews.com)
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....
Long March 3B launches ChinaSat-6E communications satellite (spacenews.com)
Virgin Galactic lays off staff as it focuses on next-generation suborbital vehicle (spacenews.com)
WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic said it will lay off staff and cut expenses to conserve resources for its next generation of suborbital spaceplanes....
Astra secures interim financing deal (spacenews.com)
In which Astra inexplicably continues to hang on by a thread.
New commercial space bill addresses mission authorization and SSA (spacenews.com)
Astra, low on cash, defaults on loan (spacenews.com)
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NASA delays Artemis lunar rover award by four months (spacenews.com)
(SpaceNews) China’s iSpace launches and lands rocket test stage (spacenews.com)
The Hyperbola-2 methane-liquid oxygen reusable verification stage rose to a height of 178 meters during its 51-second flight. It performed a powered descent and soft landing, supported by four landing legs. The 3.35-meter-diameter, 17m-long test stage is powered by a variable thrust Focus-1 engine....
Rocket Lab plans launch of Venus mission as soon as late 2024 (spacenews.com)
Varda partners with Australian range for capsule landings (spacenews.com)
India tests launch escape system in step towards sending astronauts to orbit (spacenews.com)
NASA gears up for return of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample (spacenews.com)
NASA is making the final preparations to recover samples from an asteroid that a spacecraft will bring back to Earth in September....