The launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) was the second for SpaceX in three days. SpaceX then landed the first-stage booster on a barge in the Pacific Ocean.

Thales Alenia Space is to take a “minority stake” in Airstar Aerospace, a company with know-how in balloon envelopes, in a bid to advance its Stratobus telecommunications airship project.

Virgin Orbit, the newly created small satellite launch Virgin Group company, is nearing completion of the first “pathfinder” LauncherOne test rocket.

China’s main space launcher builder has loosened the schedule for flying a super-heavy rocket.

The U.S. Air Force says it will continue investing in the Aerojet Rocketdyne AR-1 engine as a potential replacement for the Russian-made RD-180.

The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B experimental spaceplane will return to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for the first time, the service reports.

SpaceX launches a Dragon cargo vessel assembled largely from previously flow parts and stick another first-stage landing for reuse.

Rocket Lab says that despite not reaching its intended orbit of between 300 and 500 km on its first test launch on May 25, the Electron vehicle performed nominally throughout most of the mission.