Welcome to Edition 8.44 of the Rocket Report! The news this week is decidedly weighted in favor of heavy-lift rockets, largely due to the fallout from last Thursday’s explosion of Blue Origin’s New Glenn on its launch pad in Florida. Blue Origin aims ...

But experts question whether this vehicle — or a competing spacecraft under development by the Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin — will be ready in time to sway the outcome of what US lawmakers say is an ongoing space race with China. Version 3 of ...

For the first time since February, California-based Rocket Lab is planning to get a launch vehicle off the ground from inside NASA's Wallops Flight Facility that can travel at least five times the speed of sound. The mission comes as the commercial ...

To this model was added other ideas, like vertical integration so that as much of the rocket-making process was in-house rather than dependent on outside vendors. Another was to diversify revenue beyond just shooting payloads into orbit. For example, many people believe that SpaceX gets most of its income from US government contracts.