The failure of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne in January and JAXA’s Epsilon rocket last October during each rocket’s sixth launch were both caused by components becoming dislodged in the second stage propulsion systems. Eighteen satellites were lost.

Astra Space (NAS: ASTR) will provide five Spacecraft Propulsion Kits for Apex Technology’s Aries satellite bus platform beginning later this year.

Relativity Space has announced that it was ending development of the Terran 1 rocket that failed during its maiden flight last month in favor of developing its larger Terran R launch vehicle.

Planet Labs revenue increased by 46% year-over-year from $131.21 million to $191.26 million as the company forecast higher revenue over the next 12 months.

Welcome to S-SPACⁱ. In this edition, Terran Orbital received a milestone payment for the Rivada satellite constellation, Intuitive Machines’ joint venture won a major contract, and AST SpaceMobile made an historic phone call. Plus, news about BlackSky and Rocket Lab.

AST SpaceMobile (NAS: ASTS) has disclosed further delays and cost increases in its constellation of satellites designed to provide direct communications with cell phones.

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity flew for the first time since July 2021 on Wednesday as the suborbital tourism vehicle made a glide flight test at Spaceport America in New Mexico.

In today’s biz briefs, L3Harris gets a big contract, Maxar shareholders vote to go private, Ursa Major and Orbit Fab raise fresh funds, Rocket Lab will re-fly an engine, and ESA wants your ideas for how to use lunar resources.

SpaceX will lease Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6) at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rocket flights, the U.S. Space Force announced. It will be the fifth launch pad operated by the company.

A startup, Evolution Space, succeeded in launching a sounding rocket into space from the Mojave Desert over the weekend.

Updated on March 25 at 5:27 p.m. PDT

ispace attempt to become the first private company to land on the moon apparently fell short on Tuesday as controllers lost contact with the HAKUTO-R M1 lander during the final moments of descent.

ispace will webcast its attempt to become the first private company to land a spacecraft on the lunar surface today.