APR 2
2 ITEMS
Artemis 2 Launches First Crewed Lunar Mission Since Apollo 17
NASA's SLS rocket launched the Orion spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center at 6:35 PM EDT, carrying four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby: NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, a...
NASA
Artemis II
NASA
SpaceX Files Confidential S-1 with SEC, Targeting $1.75 Trillion Valuation
SpaceX submitted a confidential S-1 registration to the SEC on April 1, putting it on track for a June Nasdaq listing. The company is targeting a valuation of approximately $1.7...
SPACENEWS
IPO
SpaceX
APR 1
1 ITEM
China's Reusable Rocket Tianlong-3 Targeting April 3 Maiden Flight
Space Pioneer's Tianlong-3, a 71-meter, 9-engine, LOX/kerosene reusable rocket that closely mirrors Falcon 9 in dimensions and engine layout, is targeting an April 3 maiden flig...
CHINA IN SPACE
China
Launch
MAR 30
5 ITEMS
China's CAS Space Debuts Kinetica-2 Rocket on Maiden Flight
CAS Space successfully launched Kinetica-2 from Jiuquan, delivering three satellites including a prototype of the Qingzhou commercial cargo spacecraft for the Tiangong space sta...
NASASPACEFLIGHT
China
Launch
Rocket Lab Receives German Approval to Acquire Mynaric, Establishes Rocket Lab Europe
Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs granted FDI approval for Rocket Lab's approximately $150 million acquisition of laser communications specialist Mynaric AG. Closi...
GLOBENEWSWIRE
Rocket Lab
Laser Comms
Starcloud Raises $170M Series A at $1.1B Valuation for Orbital Data Centers
Starcloud closed a $170 million Series A led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures, hitting $1.1 billion and becoming the fastest YC graduate to reach unicorn status (17 months from dem...
TECHCRUNCH
Orbital Data Centers
Starcloud
SpaceX Launches 119 Payloads on Transporter-16 Rideshare
Transporter-16 lifted off from Vandenberg SFB carrying 119 payloads from dozens of commercial, academic, and government customers. This was the 16th dedicated Transporter missio...
SPACEFLIGHTNOW
SpaceX
Falcon 9 Booster Completes Record 34th Flight
Booster B1067 launched for a record-breaking 34th time from Cape Canaveral, deploying 29 Starlink satellites and landing on the droneship Just Read the Instructions. The booster...
SPACEFLIGHTNOW
Falcon 9
SpaceX
MAR 29
1 ITEM
Starlink Satellite Breaks Apart in Orbit: Second Anomaly in Three Months
Starlink-34343 suffered an on-orbit malfunction at approximately 560 km, generating dozens of tracked debris fragments. LeoLabs attributed the event to an internal energetic sou...
SPACENEWS
SpaceX
Starlink
MAR 28
1 ITEM
Starship Flight 12 (V3 Debut) Slips to Late April
Starship Flight 12, the maiden flight of V3 with Raptor 3 engines, has slipped from Musk's early-April target to a late April window. Booster 19 completed a 10-engine static fir...
BASENOR
Launch
SpaceX
Starship
