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Momentus’s Vigoride-3 deployed four additional satellites to low Earth orbit in July as the company works through anomalies discovered shortly after launching the space tug in May.
Boston Materials and Textron have agreed to jointly develop a new thermal protection system they say will enable a reusable rocket to be launched “again within hours of reentry into the atmosphere.”
