AUG 3
1 ITEM
Blue Origin’s NS-34 Sends Justin Sun and Five Others Past 100 km
A New Shepard rocket blasted off from West Texas at 08:30 a.m. ET, carrying crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and five international tourists to 106 km and back. The 10-minute flig...
SPACENEWS
Blue Origin
JUL 31
2 ITEMS
Rocket Lab to Launch ‘KUSHINADA-I’ on 69th Electron Mission
Rocket Lab’s (Nasdaq: RKLB) next Electron, “The Harvest Goddess Thrives,” is booked to lift off from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand during a window that opens 5 Aug UTC. The mi...
STOCKTITAN
Crew-11 Launch Set for 11:43 a.m. ET, August 1st
[Update: Due to cumulus cloud presence, the flight was delayed and subsequently set for 11:4m a.m., August 1.]NASA and SpaceX rolled Dragon Endeavour and its Falcon 9 to Pad 39A...
SPACEFLIGHTNOW
SpaceX
JUL 30
3 ITEMS
AST SpaceMobile Bolsters War-Chest with $575 Million Convertible-Notes Deal
The direct-to-cell operator closed a private placement of seven-year convertible senior notes that lifts its cash reserves above $1.5 billion. The issue carries an effective con...
BUSINESSWIRE
Firefly Snags $176.7 Million NASA Contract for South-Pole Cargo Run
NASA awarded Firefly Aerospace a Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order to deliver two rovers and three science instruments to the Moon’s south-pole region in 2029. The “B...
REUTERS
Starship Ship 37 Static-Fires Cleanly, Paving Way for Flight 10
SpaceX ignited a single Raptor on Ship 37 at Starbase for a brief static-fire, validating upgrades to the deluge system installed after Flight 8. No pad damage or engine anomali...
SPACE
SpaceX
JUL 28
3 ITEMS
NASA and Roscosmos Chiefs Meet Face-to-Face in Houston
Roscosmos Director Dmitry Bakanov arrived in Houston for talks with acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, the first head-level meeting since 2018. Agenda items include extending...
REUTERS
Politics
Firefly Aerospace Files for Nasdaq IPO at $5.5 B Valuation
Firefly Aerospace’s S-1 shows a target raise of up to $632 million, with shares priced between $35 and $39, giving the Texas launch and lunar-lander firm a potential market cap ...
REUTERS
U.S. Senator Urges Musk to Block Starlink Use by Southeast-Asian Fraud Rings
Senator Maggie Hassan asked Elon Musk to cut off Starlink terminals operating in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos that power so-called “scam compounds” targeting Americans. ...
REUTERS
Regulatory
Starlink
JUL 27
1 ITEM
Crew-11 Rocket Rolled Out and Raised on Pad 39A
Overnight Sunday, a Falcon 9 topped with Dragon Endeavour rolled from the Horizontal Integration Facility to Launch Complex 39A and was erected vertical before sunrise. NASA con...
NASA
SpaceX
NASA
