Report outlines lessons learned from first U.K. launch (spacenews.com)
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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!
HELSINKI — China launched a new internet technology experiment satellite from a sea platform Tuesday, apparently continuing tests for a low Earth orbit megaconstellation....
The UK’s SaxaVord Spaceport plans host orbital launches of HyImpulse Technologies rocket from late 2025....
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....
WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic said it will lay off staff and cut expenses to conserve resources for its next generation of suborbital spaceplanes....
In which Astra inexplicably continues to hang on by a thread.
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/8560948...
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....
NASA is making the final preparations to recover samples from an asteroid that a spacecraft will bring back to Earth in September....