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Let's do launch — "Investors deserve the protections they receive from traditional IPOs." Eric Berger - Apr 1, 2022 11:00 am UTC Enlarge / The crew of NS-20 view the New Shepard spacecraft and rocket prior to launch. Welcome to Edition 4.37 of the Rocket Report! The big event this…

Home News Spaceflight Update for 9:45 am ET: Rocket Lab has successfully launched its Without Mission a Beat flight to deliver two new BlackSky Earth observation satellites into orbit. Read our full launch recap. Rocket Lab will launch two new Earth-observation satellites into orbit from New Zealand today and you…

The EnMAP spacecraft at its factory in Bremen, Germany. Credit: OHB/H. von der Fecht A $330 million German hyperspectral Earth-imaging satellite will hitch a ride to orbit from Cape Canaveral with 39 smaller commercial payloads on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for blastoff Friday. The German observation satellite —…

Home » Space » SpaceX Starship Launch Costs Will Be Twenty Times Less Than Delta Rockets SpaceX has made launch costs per kilogram over three times lower with the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy but will make costs another 5 times lower with the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship. SOURCES- Visual…

The delays in the FCC approval for the first SpaceX Super Heavy Starship orbital flight will give SpaceX the time to replace all of the old Raptor rocket engines with new 15% more powerful Raptor 2 engines. The first Starship orbital flight will be with Raptor 2 engines, as they…

by Sandra Erwin — March 26, 2022 Intelsat deployed a mobile network in Haiti in August 2021 after an earthquake destroyed the country’s terrestrial communication network. Credit: Intelsat Intelsat is buying Starlink terminals and services and reselling them as part of a multi-layer, multi-orbit managed network WASHINGTON — If you…

by Jeff Foust — March 26, 2022 SpaceX showed off a completed Starship/Super Heavy vehicle in February, but that vehicle now appears unlikely to perform the first orbital launch attempt once the FAA awards a license to the company. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration has again delayed…

NASA is offering a second lucrative contract to fund a lunar lander for its upcoming mission to put men and the first woman on the Moon, it announced this week. Under the Artemis program, NASA's most ambitious project yet, the space agency hopes to send humans back to the surface…

Pilot Larry Connor and commander Mike Lopez-Alegria (left and right) during training inside a SpaceX simulator. Credit: Axiom Space / SpaceX NASA officials gave the green light Friday for the first all-commercial astronaut launch to the International Space Station on a SpaceX rocket as soon as April 3. But the…

Home News Spaceflight (Image credit: SpaceX) The U.S Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has delayed completion of an environmental review of SpaceX's Starship program by at least another month, to April 29 at the earliest. The FAA has been working on a programmatic environmental assessment (PEA) of Starbase, the South Texas…