Starship Flight 13 launches successfully with key milestones including Super Heavy boostback improvements, the first deployment of operational Starlink V3 satellites, and a full in-space Raptor relight before Ship 40’s controlled splashdown, while Blue Origin advances New Glenn Launch Complex-36 repairs after its static-fire explosion by recovering the launch table and relocating a Stage 2 transporter-erector amid CONOPS redesigns and potential Stage 2 test-stand plans at Kennedy and Stennis.
Rocket Lab expands its footprint with a $266 million Space Force HASTE contract for 12 suborbital missions from Alaska’s Pacific Spaceport Complex, RFA ONE stands fully stacked on the pad at SaxaVord ahead of the UK’s first vertical orbital launch attempt, and Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 becomes India’s first private rocket to reach orbit on its debut flight carrying four payloads. Additional updates cover Artemis III progress with the final RS-25 engines and booster stacking, ESA’s fifth metal 3D print on the ISS, JAXA’s successful Epsilon S motor test, and a busy week of global launches from China, Russia, and SpaceX.
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Rocket Lab expands its footprint with a $266 million Space Force HASTE contract for 12 suborbital missions from Alaska’s Pacific Spaceport Complex, RFA ONE stands fully stacked on the pad at SaxaVord ahead of the UK’s first vertical orbital launch attempt, and Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 becomes India’s first private rocket to reach orbit on its debut flight carrying four payloads. Additional updates cover Artemis III progress with the final RS-25 engines and booster stacking, ESA’s fifth metal 3D print on the ISS, JAXA’s successful Epsilon S motor test, and a busy week of global launches from China, Russia, and SpaceX.
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