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Thirty seconds after liftoff on July 23, 2026, lightning struck the Long March 3B, yet the rocket still delivered its Tianlian II-06 satellite, multiple outlets report.
After four Raptor engines quit at T-0 on July 16, SpaceX says it's swinging again on July 23 — and the stakes, according to multiple reports, couldn't be much higher.
The Pentagon confirmed the dollar figure and the launchpad, but stayed quiet on the rocket and the payload — leaving analysts to connect the dots.
The Space Force reportedly tripled its Lane 1 launch ceiling to $17 billion, and analysts say the combined program could approach $30 billion — though those are ceilings, not guarantees.
Skyroot Aerospace claims its Vikram-1 lifted off July 18, 2026, putting India in rare company as only the third nation with private orbital launch capability.
Two big NASA missions are reportedly bearing down on the launch pad within weeks of each other — if Florida weather and hardware cooperate.
SpaceX has a 90-minute window tonight to launch Starship Flight 13 — outcome unknown, booster fixes claimed, and the first functional Starlink V3 satellites riding along.
Three commercial launches in eight days at Cape Canaveral signal a serious traffic jam up there — and Starlink may have company sooner than folks thought.
Soyuz MS-29 hauled a mixed US-Russian crew to the ISS, but reporters say Isaacman's rare Baikonur appearance is the real head-scratcher worth watching.
ESA's Euclid telescope reportedly uncovered 31 record-old quasars, two blazing when the cosmos was barely 5% its current age — and scientists say they have no good explanation.
SpaceX's constellation now claims roughly 75% of active maneuverable satellites in orbit, and scientists warn the sky may never look the same.
Booster B1071 landed safely after its 35th flight, hauling 29 Starlinks to orbit — but the fleet reuse record of 36 already belongs to B1067.
Booster 1067 just set a SpaceX reuse record with its 36th flight — and it's now only three missions shy of matching NASA's all-time mark.
NASA says its Roman telescope landed in Florida eight months early, targeting an August 30 SpaceX Falcon Heavy ride to L2.
A Cranfield University spin-out says it flew a miniaturized biotech platform to orbit — but the longevity-lab framing is murkier than a catfish pond at midnight.
A two-year-old London startup says microgravity beats Earth labs at shaping protein drugs — but independent verification of that bold claim remains as distant as low-Earth orbit.
A commercial robot called LINK launched July 3 to grab a sinking space telescope, the company says — but the tricky docking and boost haven't happened yet.
Six big mystery balls turned up on Australian beaches, and authorities reckon they might be rocket leftovers — but nobody's pinned down where they came from.
Six chrome-like metal spheres washed ashore near Forrest Beach, and one expert suspects toxic rocket fuel vessels — but nobody's officially confirmed squat yet.
LINK launched July 3, but the hard part — grabbing a satellite never built to be grabbed — hasn't happened yet.
LINK is up, but the grapple hasn't happened. Here's what we know about the most ambitious orbital rescue since, well, ever.
The LINK spacecraft launched July 3, but Katalyst Space Technologies' robot hasn't grabbed anything yet — and this has never been done before.
A startup called Katalyst Space Technologies says it can robotically grab a falling NASA telescope before it burns up. The rocket hasn't left the ground yet.
A startup's spacecraft could grapple a sinking observatory before October's point of no return — but the launch hasn't happened yet.
Administrator Jared Isaacman held a briefing today pitching lunar outpost plans, NASA claims. Independent experts say the timeline is a tall order.
A Falcon 9 carried SiriusXM's SXM-11 to orbit on June 28, 2026—the third step in a fleet-renewal push SiriusXM says will juice North American audio coverage for decades.
SpaceX launched SiriusXM's SXM-11 satellite on June 28, 2026 — but this is a space-science tale, not a cyber-internet one.
A Falcon 9 is reportedly poised to haul the SXM-11 satellite toward orbit late June 28 — but the rocket hadn't left the ground when we checked.
New Glenn NG-4 exploded on the pad May 28, 2026, wrecking Blue Origin's only orbital launch site and rattling NASA moon plans.
An Arizona startup's three-armed robot, the company says, is set to attempt the first-ever commercial capture of a science satellite never built to be grabbed.
The California Science Center gave press a first look at Endeavour in full vertical launch config — and a public opening is penciled in for November 13, 2026.
Officials say the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center opens November 13, 2026, with Endeavour standing 20 stories tall in full launch configuration.
The California Science Center says its Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center opens November 13, 2026, promising the world's only complete, upright shuttle stack.
A flat, flying-saucer-shaped SpaceX capsule lifted off June 23, 2026 — and almost everything known about it came from government paperwork, not the company.
Three ESA launcher-challenge contenders have updated their maiden-flight plans, the companies say, but schedules keep slipping and nearly €140M in funding is still in limbo.
One financial commentary outlet says rocket-launch backyard dreams could drain fixed-income portfolios if retirees chase oceanfront views over sound coastal math.
Five astronauts briefly suited up and sheltered in a docked Dragon after the Zvezda leak reportedly doubled. The second crack remains unpatched and engineers are still figuring things out.
Instinct Space says it pivoted to rideshare-compatible lunar landers promising $550K per kg — but the four-person shop has no flights yet.
Instinct Space says it has pivoted from lunar GPS to low-cost landers, but every number comes straight from the company itself.
Instinct Space says its small lander needs no staging or refueling and could reach the Moon from any orbit — but the company has shown no hardware yet.
The Space Force picked Blue Origin for SLC-14, according to Spaceflight Now, but the site has zero infrastructure and New Glenn just blew up.
SpaceX shares climbed about 19 percent on their first public trading day, according to AP, Axios, and The Guardian, giving the rocket company a market value near $2.1 trillion.