The flight marks the first time NASA has launched from a commercial spaceport outside of the United States.

Launch aboard aa SpaceX Falcon Heavy had been targeted between Sept. 20 and Oct. 11.

NASA has issued five contracts with a combined maximum value of $103.4 million to four companies in support of mission-enabling spacecraft and aircraft management services overseen by the Flight Operations Directorate at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

NASA has decided it has enough data from a series of launchpad tanking tests on the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule to return the stack to the Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building and begin preparations for launch.

Launched on last month’s SpaceX Transporter 5 rideshare mission, a small satellite is allowing Blue Canyon Technologies to demonstrate a streamlined method of operation.

The U.S. House Appropriations commerce, justice and science subcommittee has marked up a $25.45 billion NASA fiscal 2023 budget measure that would provide less than the $25.97 billion requested by the White House but more than the $24.04 billion the space agency received for the current fiscal year.

An Ariane 5 rocket has lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary orbit.

South Korea has become the seventh country to develop heavy-rocket technology, after placing two satellites into low-Earth orbit with its Nuri rocket.