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Rocket Report: A mysterious explosion in China; Firefly tests new engine (arstechnica.com)

A nice overview of various recent and upcoming spaceflight topics:...

[Progress MS-25] Russia launches space station cargo ship – Spaceflight Now (spaceflightnow.com)

Progress MS-25 launch:...

China is working on a design for a reusable air-launched orbital rocket (spacenews.com)

Ursa Major closes $138 million Series D and D-1 financings (spacenews.com)

Blue Origin nearing New Glenn milestones ahead of debut flight - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)

Shanghai to foster commercial space ecosystem (spacenews.com)

Satellite imagery reveals explosion at China’s Jiuquan spaceport (spacenews.com)

2023 has been another year with a record number of orbital launches (arstechnica.com)

Arctic broadband satellites complete key tests ahead of mid-2024 launch (spacenews.com)

Launch Roundup: Soyuz to resupply the ISS; SpaceX to launch more Starlink satellites - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)

The week begins with Roscosmos planning to launch the Progress MS-25 resupply capsule on a Soyuz 2.1a up to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Then, a Falcon 9 launch out of Vandenburg Space Force Base (VSFB) will take multiple different payloads to a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) in one launch and also has a return-to-launch...

Firefly to launch a Lockheed Martin satellite antenna demonstration (spacenews.com)

Firefly Aerospace Completes First Miranda Engine Hot Fire Test - Firefly Aerospace (fireflyspace.com)

Aerojet Rocketdyne, ULA mark 60th anniversary of RL10 rocket engine – Spaceflight Now (spaceflightnow.com)

Astra secures $2.7 million in additional financing (spacenews.com)

From Countdown to Touchdown: Flying Aboard Virgin Galactic - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)

Technically spaceflight, as long as you use the “50 mile” definition and not the “100 km” definition :)

ESA Declares Ariane 6 Full Duration Hot Fire Test A Success (spacepolicyonline.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....

Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk to fly to ISS on Starliner-1 mission NET 2025 (nitter.net)

nitter.net/csa_asc/status/1727343757102547229#m...

Rocket Report: Beyond Gravity to study fairing reuse; North Korea launches satellite (arstechnica.com)

Eric Berger’s Rocket Report. Nice short summaries of a number of topics:...

North Korea launched a satellite, then apparently blew up its booster (arstechnica.com)

North Korea launched a small military spy satellite Tuesday on the country’s first successful orbital launch since 2016. This, alone, would be newsworthy, but this launch comes with a twist.

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....

Launch Roundup: SpaceX on pace to hit 100 launches in 2023, Soyuz to launch Bars-M - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)

Following a busy week for SpaceX with the launch of two Starlink missions and the second launch of Starship, SpaceX is currently on track to meet its 100 launch goal of 2023....

RocketLab: Construction of LC-3 at Wallops is underway (nitter.net)

nitter.net/RocketLab/status/1724530751952306201#m...

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...