United Launch Alliance has unveiled a competition that encourages participants to submit payload and rover design proposals that will be launched through a refurbished rocket.

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United Launch Alliance offloaded the Atlas V rocket’s booster core at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for Boeing CST-100 Starliner space capsule’s crewed flight test in August, Spaceflight Insider reported Thursday.

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Lockheed Martin has tested the performance of the U.S. Air Force's fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite during an on-orbit test, the final step before the company transfers spacecraft control authority to the Space and Missiles Systems Center.

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The U.S. Air Force is considering using a rapid acquisition pathway to buy military communications satellites that would succeed the Advanced Extremely High Frequency system, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. Col. David Ashley, program manager of the Air Force’s AEHF system, said the service branch will seek approval from its senior acquisition executive in December to use […] More

United Launch Alliance has signed a cooperative research-and-development agreement with the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center in support of efforts to certify the company’s future Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle for national security space missions. The Air Force said Tuesday the cooperative, jointly-written agreement will stay in effect until all non-recurring design validation activities for the launch vehicle […] More

Blue Origin-built New Shepard rocket has completed a take-off and vertical landing operation two months after the company put the rocket through a second unmanned test flight in November 2015. Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos wrote in a blog entry posted Friday that New Shepard took off from a launch site in West Texas and slowly descended to Earth for reuse […] More

Blue Orgin‘s New Shepard rocket technology has completed a launch and landing process during an unmanned flight test Monday at a private range in West Texas, Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos wrote in a blog entry posted after the exercise. He said New Shepard flew at a high altitude through 119 miles per hour crosswinds before the system reignited a BE-3 […] More

United Launch Alliance has selected Orbital ATK as the sole provider of solid boosters for the Atlas V and Vulcan launch vehicles as part of a long-term strategic partnership between both businesses that takes effect in 2019. Orbital ATK said Tuesday it will design and develop two new motors for the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture to support both government and commercial […] More