SpaceX nears next Starship test flight as Starbase expansion continues SpaceNews

The FAA has granted approval for the Falcon 9 launch of ESA’s Hera asteroid mission, but is keeping the vehicle grounded for now for other missions.

NASA has decided not to launch a Mars mission on the first flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn in October, concluding that the rocket may not be ready then.

SpaceX launched EchoStar’s more than nine metric ton Jupiter-3 spacecraft July 28 and successfully dropped off the world’s heaviest commercial communications satellite in geosynchronous transfer orbit.