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LandSpace's Zhuque-3 rocket landed its first stage vertically on solid ground on August 19, making the Chinese startup one of the few companies worldwide to demonstrate orbital-class booster recovery.
Atmospheric researchers are calling for a formal environmental study before regulators approve SpaceX's plan to deploy up to a million orbital AI data-center satellites, citing new evidence that reentries are already changing the stratosphere's chemistry.
A Long March 7A rocket broke apart in a fireball roughly 85 seconds into flight from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, destroying the ChinaSat 4B communications satellite it was carrying and raising questions about the widely used YF-100 engine that powers its first stage.
A stranded Falcon 9 upper stage will slam into the lunar surface near Einstein crater on August 5, in a rare uncontrolled impact that a 23-researcher observation campaign says could offer the clearest view ever of a human-made object striking another world.
SpaceX's first Starship mission since the company went public ended in an abort on the pad after four Super Heavy engines failed to ignite. Elon Musk says the next attempt is "hopefully in a few days."
The FAA has cleared SpaceX to resume Starship test flights after concluding its investigation into the May 22 Super Heavy booster failure, with the next launch possible as soon as Thursday, July 16 — the company's first Starship flight since going public.
The Long March-10B's first-stage booster was recovered by a cable-and-net system off Hainan on July 10, making China the third entity after SpaceX and Blue Origin to achieve orbital-class booster reuse.
Jeff Bezos' rocket company secures its first external capital after years of self-funding, with Coatue leading a $4 billion stake and Bezos personally committing $2 billion more.
SpaceX enters the Nasdaq-100 before Tuesday's open, the fastest major index inclusion on record, triggering an estimated $4.3 billion in automatic buying from tracking funds.
A ULA Atlas V launch pushed Amazon's satellite broadband constellation past 390 operational satellites, enough for continuous initial coverage — with faster-cadence Vulcan and New Glenn launches next to close the gap with Starlink.
SpaceX has filed for a million-satellite orbital data center constellation. SoftBank's CEO argues electricity is the wrong cost to optimize — hardware and chips dominate data center economics, and no satellite changes that.
For the first time, a commercial robotic spacecraft will attempt to capture and reboost a government satellite, keeping a 22-year-old astronomy mission alive.