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Kosmos 2612 spent weeks maneuvering to match the orbit of ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar satellite, before closing to a distance orbital trackers call the first unsanctioned rendezvous of its kind in low-Earth orbit.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued its launch authorization for SpaceX's Starship Flight 14 late Saturday, confirming the mission remains on track for liftoff Monday morning — Starship's first genuine attempt to reach orbit after 13 prior test flights.
A prototype satellite carrying four Tensor Processing Units launches October 1st aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, testing whether solar-powered orbital data centers could one day scale AI compute beyond what Earth's grid can support.
Ten years after development began, SpaceX assembled the full Starship-Super Heavy stack at Starbase this week, with an FAA-cleared launch window opening as soon as September 28 for Flight 14.
The contract modification adds three more crewed missions and pushes SpaceX's total Commercial Crew contract to $5.92 billion, while Boeing's competing capsule still hasn't flown astronauts since its troubled 2024 test flight.
A Falcon 9 launch carrying the final three O3b mPOWER broadband satellites marked SpaceX's 700th Falcon flight and completed a Boeing-built constellation more than ten years in development.
The Munich startup founded by three university students reached orbit in seven minutes on Saturday, marking a milestone for European launch sovereignty.
Four American space companies withdrew from France's international space summit as Washington lobbies against the EU Space Act and pushes back on European satellite spectrum plans that compete with Starlink.
The $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches from Kennedy Space Center today, carrying a 300-megapixel camera that will survey billions of galaxies at 1,000 times Hubble's speed.
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.