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Lockheed Martin Guarantees $500 Million Loan to ULA as Vulcan Grounding Drains Space Segment Profit
Lockheed Martin disclosed a $500 million loan guarantee for United Launch Alliance and cut its space division's profit forecast after Vulcan's grounding.
SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 Achieves Its Softest-Ever Splashdown While Deploying Debut Starlink V3 Satellites
SpaceX's 13th Starship test flight deployed 20 operational Starlink V3 satellites and landed Ship intact in the Indian Ocean, though the Super Heavy booster again splashed down hard.
NASA Reassigns SunRISE Solar-Storm Mission From ULA's Vulcan Centaur to SpaceX Falcon Heavy
NASA moved its six-satellite SunRISE heliophysics mission off Vulcan Centaur onto a Falcon Heavy rideshare, months after a Vulcan booster anomaly grounded the rocket's national-security flights.
GE Aerospace and NASA Fly Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Above 30,000 Feet in World-First Demonstration
GE Aerospace, NASA, BETA Technologies, and Boeing flew a hybrid-electric propulsion system above 30,000 feet on a modified Saab 340B, unveiled at the Farnborough Airshow.
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 Reaches Orbit, Making India the Third Country With Private Orbital Launch Capability
Skyroot's Vikram-1 rocket reached a 450 km orbit on its July 18 debut flight, making India the third country with private orbital launch capability.
Embraer Launches Phenom 300EV, the Largest Business Jet to Carry Garmin's Emergency Autoland System
Embraer unveiled the $13,995,000 Phenom 300EV on July 14, 2026, adding Garmin Emergency Autoland, extended range to 2,055 nautical miles, and new safety systems, with deliveries starting in 2028.
China Recovers Long March 10B Booster With Net Capture at Sea, Becoming Second Nation to Land an Orbital-Class Rocket
CASC's new Long March 10B caught its own booster in a sea-based net on its maiden flight July 10, joining SpaceX and Blue Origin as the only operators to recover an orbital-class rocket stage.
Hayabusa2 Flies About 10 Kilometers From Asteroid Torifune, and Its First Images Reveal a Two-Lobed Contact Binary
Japan's Hayabusa2 completed a successful July 5 flyby of asteroid Torifune, passing about 10 km away and returning first optical and thermal images that show a two-lobed contact binary.
ULA Flies the Final Atlas V 551, Lofting 29 Amazon Leo Satellites and Leaving Just Six Atlas Vs Reserved for Starliner
United Launch Alliance flew the last Atlas V 551 on July 2, ending the rocket's satellite-launching career; its six remaining vehicles are held for Boeing's Starliner as Amazon Leo pivots to Vulcan.
Rocket Lab to Acquire Iridium for $8 Billion, Betting Vertical Integration From Rocket to Satellite Service Can Challenge SpaceX
Rocket Lab agreed to buy satellite operator Iridium for $54 a share, an $8 billion deal that would let it build, launch, and operate its own constellations.
Euclid Captures 60 Million Stars in the Milky Way's Bulge, Setting a Microlensing Baseline for NASA's Roman Telescope
ESA's Euclid Q2 release maps 4.8 square degrees of the galactic bulge, previewing Roman's 2027 exoplanet survey.
SpaceX Debuts Its Disk-Shaped Starfall Reentry Capsule, Built to Return a Ton of Cargo From Orbit
SpaceX flew the first demo of Starfall, a parachute-recovered capsule that can return 1,000 kg of cargo from orbit, on June 23.