Virgin Orbit has completed a full wet dress rehearsal ahead of its first flight from Spaceport Cornwall. The window for the launch is still to be determined by the launch permitting regulatory process. Virgin Orbit said Wednesday that this rehearsal marked the final major acceptance test of the rocket prior to mating to its carrier…

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched two C-band satellites for SES in an Atlas V mission on Tuesday evening. The Boeing-built satellites are part of SES’s work to clear C-band spectrum for 5G service.  The Atlas V rocket took off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Oct. 4 at…

Firefly Aerospace successfully reached orbit and deployed customer payloads with its Alpha rocket early Saturday morning. This successful mission inaugrates a new vehicle into the smallsat launch market.  The mission — FLTA002 — took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Oct. 1 at 12:01 a.m. PST. The Alpha rocket deployed three payloads, including…

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched a national security satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office over the weekend, in the final Delta IV Heavy mission from the West Coast. The NROL-91 mission lifted off on Sept. 24 at 3:25 p.m. PDT from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Space Force Base.  The NRO has two remaining Delta…