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....
ULA chief on the Vulcan rocket: “The path to flight one is clear” (arstechnica.com)
During a media roundtable on Wednesday afternoon, the chief executive of United Launch Alliance, Tory Bruno, said, “The path to flight one is clear" for Vulcan. The last major piece of hardware for the rocket, the Centaur V upper stage, arrived at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Monday. All of the qualification testing necessary...
ESA to start commercial cargo program (spacenews.com)
“I’m asking for a small but very impactful step, the first step that enables a much bigger ambition,” Josef Aschbacher, ESA director general, said in remarks at the opening of the ESA Council meeting there. “I propose a competition between innovative European companies to deliver a space cargo return service to transport...
Boeing ramps up final assembly to complete Artemis II SLS Core Stage by year end - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
FAA anticipates extension of commercial spaceflight regulatory learning period (spacenews.com)
Jeff Bezos shows off new Moon lander design for NASA (arstechnica.com)
New agreement enables U.S. launches from Australian spaceports (spacenews.com)
Intuitive Machines delays first lander mission to January (spacenews.com)
Rocket Report: China launches 3-man crew; SpaceX adds to busy manifest (arstechnica.com)
(ArsTechnica) CEO of rocket-maker ULA makes a sales pitch—for the whole company (arstechnica.com)
Tory Bruno spoke....
(ArsTechnica) Boeing says it can’t make money with fixed-price contracts; "Rest assured we haven't signed any fixed-price development contracts, nor intend to." (arstechnica.com)
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India sets sights on a Moon landing in 2040, but is it realistic? (arstechnica.com)
Blue Origin's New Shepard to return to flight - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
Report outlines lessons learned from first U.K. launch (spacenews.com)
Rocket Report: Signs of life from Blue Origin; SpaceX preps next Starship (arstechnica.com)
Space Force chief: Timing of Chinese spaceplane launch “no coincidence” (arstechnica.com)
Rocket Lab successfully completes return-to-flight Electron launch – Spaceflight Now (spaceflightnow.com)
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket set for return to flight mission – Spaceflight Now (spaceflightnow.com)
Launch Roundup: Rocket Lab to return to flight; SpaceX set to launch Falcon 9 three times - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
On Thursday at 14:10 UTC, a Chang Zheng 2F/T rocket is expected to launch China’s reusable spaceplane into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China. Very little is publicly known about this spaceplane, even less than the X-37B, which this vehicle is believed to be based on....
China’s reusable rocket race heats up with new hop test (spacenews.com)
ULA chief says Vulcan rocket will slip to 2024 after ground system issues (arstechnica.com)
Bruno made the announcement after the company attempted to complete a fueling test of the entire rocket, known as a wet dress rehearsal....
Rocket Report: The final space shuttle stack; SpaceX may extend booster lifetimes (arstechnica.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!
