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Rocket Report: Russia’s rocket engine predicament; 300th launch to the ISS

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-27 07:29:03

Welcome to Edition 8.10 of the Rocket Report! Dear readers, if everything goes according to plan, four astronauts are less than six months away from traveling around the far side of the Moon and breaking free of low-Earth orbit for the first time in more than 53 years. Yes, there are good reasons to question NASA's long-term plans for the Artemis lunar program—the woeful cost of the Space Launch System rocket, the complexity of new commercial landers, and a bleak budget outlook. But many of us w

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Starship to Deliver 100 Tons to Orbit by 2026, Musk Claims

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-01 07:05:41

Starship finally broke a losing streak of back-to-back flops, acing its 10th suborbital flight last month. Following the rocket’s success, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is now confident that the massive vehicle will begin flying payloads to space in 2026. During an interview with the All-In Podcast, Musk explained how an upgraded version of Starship will reach orbit by next year and demonstrate full reusability of the Super Heavy booster and its upper stage. “Unless we have some very major s

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Congress and Trump may compromise on the SLS rocket by axing its costly upper stage

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-06 03:54:31

There are myriad questions about how NASA's budget process will play out in the coming weeks, with the start of the new fiscal year on October 1 looming. For example, the Trump administration may seek to shut off dozens of science missions that are either already in space or in development. Although Congress has signaled a desire to keep these missions active, absent a confirmed budget, the White House has made plans to turn off the lights. Some answers may be forthcoming this week, as the Hou

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Rocket Report: Neutron’s pad opens for business; SpaceX gets Falcon 9 green light

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-09 00:00:13

Welcome to Edition 8.09 of the Rocket Report! The biggest news of the week happened inside the Beltway rather than on a launch pad somewhere. In Washington, DC, Congress has pushed back on the Trump administration's plan to stop flying the Space Launch System rocket after Artemis III. Congress made it clear that it wants to keep the booster in business for a long time. The big question now is whether the Trump White House will blink. As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't wa

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These Hi-Fi Speakers Are Made out of Rocket Fuel Tanks

wired.com Kenji Takeda 2025-10-18 00:00:00

Momentum for space development is growing on a global scale. The rocket company SpaceX, led by CEO Elon Musk, has been carrying out numerous missions since putting its partially reusable Falcon 9 rocket into service. The company now boasts the highest launch frequency in the world, and this has helped boost the number of rocket launches worldwide to 254 last year. This is a dramatic increase of more than 20 percent compared to the previous year. In Japan, Honda has begun developing a reusable

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Falcon 9 Milestones Vindicate SpaceX’s ‘Dumb’ Approach to Reuse

wired.com Eric Berger 2025-10-17 23:00:00

As SpaceX's Starship vehicle gathered all of the attention this week, the company's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket continued to hit some impressive milestones. Both occurred during relatively anonymous launches of the company's Starlink satellites but are nonetheless notable because they underscore the value of first-stage reuse, which SpaceX has pioneered over the past decade. The first milestone occurred on Wednesday morning with the launch of the Starlink 10-56 mission from Cape Canaveral, Flori

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Rocket Report: SpaceX achieved daily launch this week; ULA recovers booster

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-19 23:39:03

Welcome to Edition 8.08 of the Rocket Report! What a week it's been for SpaceX. The company completed its first successful Starship test flight in nearly a year, and while it wasn't perfect, it sets up SpaceX for far more ambitious tests ahead. SpaceX's workhorse rocket, the Falcon 9, launched six times since our last edition of the Rocket Report. Many of these missions were noteworthy in their own right, including the launch of the US military's X-37B spaceplane, an upgraded Dragon capsule to b

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With recent Falcon 9 milestones, SpaceX vindicates its “dumb” approach to reuse

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 23:46:46

As SpaceX's Starship vehicle gathered all of the attention this week, the company's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket continued to hit some impressive milestones. Both occurred during relatively anonymous launches of the company's Starlink satellites but are nonetheless notable because they underscore the value of first-stage reuse, which SpaceX has pioneered over the last decade. The first milestone occurred on Wednesday morning with the launch of the Starlink 10-56 mission from Cape Canaveral, Flori

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Part of Starship Explodes During SpaceX's Latest Test Flight

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-23 10:17:57

Coming off a string of explosive failures, on Tuesday night SpaceX once again launched its gigantic Starship rocket into space, with both its stages successfully returning to their separate landing targets on Earth. This time, the only huge explosions were planned one: final blasts as the two spacecraft touched down. After the launch had been scrubbed twice over the two prior days, the company's engineers could finally breathe a sigh of relief. The flight demonstrated several key objectives, i

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Under pressure after setbacks, SpaceX’s huge rocket finally goes the distance

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-24 07:48:05

STARBASE, Texas—SpaceX launched the 10th test flight of the company's Starship rocket Tuesday evening, sending the stainless steel spacecraft halfway around the world to an on-target splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The largely successful mission for the world's largest rocket was an important milestone for SpaceX's Starship program after months of repeated setbacks, including three disappointing test flights and a powerful explosion on the ground that destroyed the ship that engineers were orig

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With a new Soyuz rocket, Russia seeks to break its Ukrainian dependency

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 06:17:20

In recent comments to the Russian state-run media service TASS, the chief of Roscosmos said the country's newest rocket, the Soyuz-5, should take flight for the first time before the end of this year. "Yes, we are planning for December," said Dmitry Bakanov, the director of Roscosmos, Russia's main space corporation. "Everything is in place." According to the report, translated for Ars by Rob Mitchell, the debut launch of Soyuz-5 will mark the first of several demonstration flights, with full

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Watch Live as SpaceX Tries to Prove Starship Isn’t a Total Flop With Flight 10

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-29 01:00:50

SpaceX is gearing up for the tenth test flight of its megarocket following a streak of failures that have cast doubt on Starship’s ability to fly to Mars in 2026. Starship is slated for lift-off on Sunday, August 24, during a launch window that opens at 7:30 p.m. ET. SpaceX recently wrapped up investigations into the rocket’s previous test flight, which took place on May 27 and ended with the vehicle breaking apart during reentry. This was the third Starship flight of 2025 and the latest in a s

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Rocket Report: Pivotal Starship test on tap, Firefly wants to be big in Japan

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-31 11:00:18

Welcome to Edition 8.07 of the Rocket Report! It's that time again: another test flight of SpaceX's massive Starship vehicle. In this week's report, we have a review of what went wrong on Flight 9 in May and a look at the stakes for the upcoming mission, which are rather high. The flight test is presently scheduled for 6:30 pm local time in Texas (23:30 UTC) on Sunday, and Ars will be on hand to provide in-depth coverage. As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss a

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Anduril, Blue Origin to study how to transport cargo from orbit to Earth for the Pentagon

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-31 18:11:37

Blue Origin and Anduril have landed new study contracts with the U.S. Air Force to explore how their technology, including rockets, could move military cargo around the world. The contracts under the Air Force’s Rocket Cargo program are relatively small — Blue Origin’s comes in at $1.37 million and Anduril’s at $1 million. But they could be the first steps in revolutionizing how the Pentagon transports cargo. Study contracts like these are also a strong signal as to which players will later c

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SpaceX reveals why the last two Starships failed as another launch draws near

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-11 10:20:24

SpaceX is continuing with final preparations for the 10th full-scale test flight of the company's enormous Starship rocket after receiving launch approval Friday from the Federal Aviation Administration. Engineers completed a final test of Starship's propulsion system with a so-called "spin prime" test Wednesday at the launch site in South Texas. Ground crews then rolled the ship back to a nearby hangar for engine inspections, touchups to its heat shield, and a handful of other chores to ready

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Rocket Report: Ariane 6 beats Vulcan to third launch; China’s first drone ship

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-12 15:16:49

Welcome to Edition 8.06 of the Rocket Report! Two of the world's most storied rocket builders not named SpaceX achieved major successes this week. Arianespace's Ariane 6 rocket launched from French Guiana on its third flight Tuesday night with a European weather satellite. Less than 20 minutes later, United Launch Alliance's third Vulcan rocket lifted off from Florida on a US military mission. These are two of the three big rockets developed in the Western world that have made their orbital debu

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After first operational launch, here’s the next big test for ULA’s Vulcan rocket

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-17 15:45:16

United Launch Alliance delivered multiple US military satellites into a high-altitude orbit after a prime-time launch Tuesday night, marking an important transition from development to operations for the company's new Vulcan rocket. This mission, officially designated USSF-106 by the US Space Force, was the first flight of ULA's Vulcan rocket to carry national security payloads. Two test flights of the Vulcan rocket last year gave military officials enough confidence to certify it for launching

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Space Force officials take secrecy to new heights ahead of key rocket launch

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-19 20:10:45

After more than a decade of development and testing, US military officials are finally ready to entrust United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket to haul a batch of national security satellites into space. An experimental military navigation satellite, also more than 10 years in the making, will ride ULA's Vulcan rocket into geosynchronous orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator. There are additional payloads buttoned up inside the Vulcan rocket's nose cone, but of

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Why does Jeff Bezos keep buying launches from Elon Musk?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-22 05:30:59

Early Monday morning, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from its original launch site in Florida. Remarkably, it was SpaceX's 100th launch of the year. Perhaps even more notable was the rocket's payload: two-dozen Project Kuiper satellites, which were dispensed into low-Earth orbit on target. This was SpaceX's second launch of satellites for Amazon, which is developing a constellation to deliver low-latency broadband Internet around the world. SpaceX, then, just launched a direct competitor to its S

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Rocket Lab eyes big defense opportunities with new acquisition

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-27 15:23:39

Rocket Lab is signaling to investors, yet again, that it’s more than “just” a rocket company. Rocket Lab’s second-quarter results, which were posted Thursday, show revenues continue to be driven by its space systems business rather than launch. The results also highlighted the company’s acquisition strategy and how its purchase of a new optical payloads company will make it more competitive for lucrative government contracts. The company’s space systems brought in $97.9 million of the $144.5 m

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Rocket Report: NASA finally working on depots, Air Force tests new ICBM

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-10 16:00:45

Welcome to Edition 8.05 of the Rocket Report! One of the most eye-raising things I saw this week was an online update from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center touting its work on cryogenic propellant management in orbit. Why? Because until recently, this was a forbidden research topic at the space agency, as propellant depots would obviate the need for a large rocket like the Space Launch System. But now that Richard Shelby is retired... As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don'

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Australia’s first orbital-class rocket stalled seconds after liftoff

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-14 20:13:28

Back-to-back engine failures doomed a privately developed Australian rocket moments after liftoff Tuesday, cutting short a long-shot attempt to reach orbit with the country's first homegrown launch vehicle. The 82-foot-tall (25-meter) Eris rocket ignited its four main engines and took off from its launch pad in northeastern Australia at 6:35 pm EDT (22:35 UTC) Tuesday. Liftoff occurred at 8:35 am local time Wednesday at Bowen Orbital Spaceport, the Eris rocket's launch site in the Australian st

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Australia’s First Rocket Crashes and Burns Seconds After Liftoff

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-15 00:25:00

The first Australian-made orbital rocket to launch from the land down under barely took off for its inaugural test flight, ending roughly 14 seconds after liftoff. Australian startup Gilmour Space launched its Eris rocket for the first time from the company’s Bowen Orbital Spaceport in northern Queensland at 6:35 p.m. ET on Tuesday (8:35 a.m. on Wednesday local time). The first orbital rocket designed and manufactured in Australia had a less-than-ideal first showing. Footage showed Eris struggl

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SpaceX Is Gearing Up for Starship’s Next Flight After a String of Explosive Setbacks

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-17 00:45:18

SpaceX is prepping the Starship rocket for its upcoming test flight, expected to take place in early August. The rocket’s last few launches did not go smoothly, leaving SpaceX in a bit of a slump as it rushes to develop a fully reusable Starship. The company desperately needs a win ahead of its planned uncrewed Mars launch in 2026, or at least for the rocket not to end up as burnt scraps at the bottom of the ocean. This week, SpaceX transported Starship to its launch site in Starbase, Texas, fo

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Firefly Aerospace sets IPO range that would value rocket maker at $5.5 billion

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-20 05:06:25

Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim sits for an interview at the Firefly Aerospace mission operations center in Leander, Texas, on July 9, 2025. Firefly Aerospace will price shares at $35 to $39 each in its upcoming initial public offering, a deal that would value the rocket maker at about $5.5 billion. The Texas-based space company said in an updated prospectus Monday that it's planning to sell about 16.2 million shares. The offering could raise up to $631.8 million. Earlier this month, Firefly

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Does Rocket Money Work? I’m Convinced After Saving $400 in Subscription Costs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 05:00:00

You could be losing money to subscriptions you don't even use. This popular budgeting app can help you cut costs. Getty Images/Rocket Money/Amy Kim/CNET No one likes losing money, yet many of us are allowing dollars to drain from our bank accounts without realizing it. The average US consumer spends around $200 a year on subscriptions they don't even use, according to a recent CNET study. It's easy to see why. You sign up for a free trial or service and forget about it, but the subscription pr

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Rocket Lab Has Some Genuine Competition for SpaceX, but It Can’t Reach the Launchpad

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-26 05:05:38

California-based startup Rocket Lab is looking to compete with industry leader SpaceX with its upcoming launch vehicle, Neutron. But before it can debut its reusable rocket later this year, the company has to figure out a way to transport Neutron’s components to the southern tip of Wallops Island in Virginia. Rocket Lab is awaiting approval to dredge a permanent channel to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, a spaceport surrounded by shallow waters and scarce infrastru

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A troubled SPAC plans to buy iRocket for $400M but it already returned most of its cash

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-27 10:03:33

An unproven small launch startup is partnering with a severely depleted SPAC trust to do the impossible: go public in a deal they say will be valued at $400 million. Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc. (iRocket) and BPGC Acquisition Corp., a special purpose vehicle company founded by former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, is aiming to close the transaction in the fourth quarter of this year. Interestingly, the SPAC has been depleted of most of its cash after it raised $345 million in its IPO i

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Rocket Lab’s first hurdle to flying its new rocket is getting it to the pad

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-30 15:00:06

Rocket Lab has asked regulators for permission to transport oversized Neutron rocket structures through shallow waters to a spaceport off the coast of Virginia as it races to meet a September delivery deadline. The request, which was made in July, is a temporary stop gap while the company awaits federal clearance to dredge a permanent channel to the Wallops Island site. Rocket Lab plans to launch its Neutron medium-lift rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, V

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Elon Now Facing the Possibility That SpaceX Will Never Get Starship Working

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-30 23:13:23

SpaceX is nine full-scale test launches into developing its enormous, nearly 400-feet-tall Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. Over the last two and a half years, we've seen over half a dozen spectacular explosions. Two launches earlier this year sent massive streaks of debris hurtling over the Turks and Caicos Islands, prompting airspace closures. Its most recent test in May ended in an uncontrolled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico after helplessly spinning on its axis and suffering

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