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Apr 03, 2026
Space Pioneer's Tianlong-3, a Falcon 9-class partially reusable rocket powered by nine TH-12 engines, failed approximately 33 seconds after liftoff from Jiuquan on its inaugural flight. The vehicle...
Mar 28, 2026
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 fire on Pad 2 on March ...
Apr 01, 2026
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 flight from Jiuquan. It ...
Mar 30, 2026
CAS Space successfully launched Kinetica-2 from Jiuquan, delivering three satellites including a prototype of the Qingzhou commercial cargo spacecraft for the Tiangong space station. Kinetica-2 is ...
We model Starship's cost per kilogram under two recovery modes and map the results against the launch cost thresholds from our orbital compute crossover analysis. The finding: booster reuse, already demonstrated, gets Starship more than halfway to the base case. Ship reuse, which SpaceX is sequencing toward with V3, crosses that threshold on the first reflight.
Starship cost/kg and orbital compute cost scenarios
Feb 21, 2026
SpaceX set a new milestone in rapid reusability, flying a Falcon 9 booster for the 33rd time, while another reached its 31st flight on the same day during dual Starlink missions. Both boosters were...
Feb 23, 2026
China’s highly classified Shenlong robotic space plane is currently executing its 4th orbital mission. U.S. Space Force analysts are monitoring the vehicle as it is believed to be testing rendezvou...
Feb 25, 2026
Rocket Lab is scheduled to launch its next HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) mission, titled "That’s Not A Knife," for the Defense Innovation Unit. The mission is targeted for...
Feb 21, 2026
NASA flagged a new upper-stage helium pressurization/flow issue discovered during pad operations, prompting troubleshooting and a rollback posture that pushes Artemis II to no earlier than April 20...
Feb 13, 2026
SpaceX successfully launched the Crew-12 mission from Cape Canaveral, sending NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev to ...
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