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Five days after an automated abort, a Falcon 9 lifted 21 Northrop Grumman Transport Layer satellites from Vandenberg on Oct. 10. That brings the Space Development Agency to 84 of the 126 data-relay satellites planned for Tranche 1, with five of nine launches still to go.
Read the story →Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL left the ISS on Oct. 9 loaded with station trash and 12 University of Kentucky KREPE-3 capsules that will test experimental heat-shield materials, including a 3D-printed shield, during the cargo ship's destructive reentry.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 6:33 a.m. EDT Oct. 13 for CRS-35, a Cargo Dragon carrying more than 6,300 pounds to the ISS, including the last pair of roll-out solar arrays meant to keep the station powered through its controlled deorbit.
SpaceX called off the Space Development Agency's T1TL-A launch of 21 Northrop Grumman data-transport satellites in the final minute of Monday's count at Vandenberg, and the next try is set for Thursday, Oct. 8.
NASA has posted an image of engineers lifting COSI's detector assembly, a milestone for the gamma-ray Small Explorer built to trace the Milky Way's 511 keV antimatter glow and slated to fly on a Falcon 9 in 2027.
Sierra Space says its long-delayed Dream Chaser spaceplane will carry national security, civil and NASA cargo payloads together on one debut flight from Kennedy Space Center to Vandenberg.
NASA and ESA astronauts finished a two-part antenna repair spacewalk while Cygnus XL fired its engine for 21 minutes to reboost the ISS ahead of a Progress 96 docking and a third EVA in September.
A servicing spacecraft launched to save the Swift Observatory from a decaying orbit now needs saving itself, after two of its three reaction wheels failed and NASA called off the planned altitude boost.
Amazon, Lockheed, Northrop, Rocket Lab, and York each pocket roughly $12M to prove their satellites can talk to a backbone SpaceX is building — and to each other.
At the Huntsville missile-defense symposium, Golden Dome's director unveiled a website for startups to pitch concepts directly — even as he and Space Command's outgoing chief warned the $185 billion program could stall for lack of funding by October.
SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and ten other contenders have passed Gate 1 of the Pentagon's space-based interceptor competition, but officials warn the $185 billion Golden Dome missile shield could stall as soon as October without new funding.
The Pentagon has put firm dates on Golden Dome's hardest problem: space-based interceptor ground tests by end of 2026, two orbital flight tests in 2027, and an intercept demo in 2029 — with up to $3.2 billion spread across 12 companies and Gen. Michael Guetlein holding the program to a falsifiable clock.
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