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Rocket Report: SpaceX’s expansion at Vandenberg; India’s PSLV fails in flight

Welcome to Edition 7.45 of the Rocket Report! Let’s talk about spaceplanes. Since the Space Shuttle, spaceplanes have, at best,…

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The Pentagon seems to be fed up with ULA’s rocket delays

Some of the displeasure was apparent in April when the US military announced that it would ask SpaceX to launch…

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Rocket Report: How is your payload fairing? Poland launches test rocket.

Gilmour Space has a payload fairing mishap. Gilmour Space, a venture-backed startup based in Australia, said this week it was…

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The top fell off Australia’s first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch

This was unusual Payload fairing problems have caused a number of rocket failures, usually because they don’t jettison during launch,…

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For the first time in the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight

A US-based propulsion company, Venus Aerospace, said Wednesday it had completed a short flight test of its rotating detonation rocket…

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Rocket Report: Rocket Lab to demo cargo delivery; America’s new ICBM in trouble

Rising costs … Sentinel, developed by Northrop Grumman, will replace the Air Force’s fleet of Minuteman III ICBMs, which entered…

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This US Company Just Successfully Tested a Reusable Hypersonic Rocket Plane

“Demonstrating the reuse of fully recoverable hypersonic test vehicles is an important milestone for MACH-TB,” said George Rumford, director of…

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The company with the world’s largest aircraft now has a hypersonic rocket plane

“Demonstrating the reuse of fully recoverable hypersonic test vehicles is an important milestone for MACH-TB,” said George Rumford, director of…

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Rocket Report: Starbase the city is coming soon; Alpha remains in beta

SpaceX launches 50th rocket of the year. The California company launched two separate Starlink missions within six hours of each…

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A rocket launch Monday night may finally jump-start Amazon’s answer to Starlink

“This launch marks the first step toward the future of our partnership and increased launch cadence,” Bruno said. “We have…

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