{"id":1194442,"date":"2023-10-20T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1194442"},"modified":"2023-10-20T07:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T11:00:37","slug":"rocket-report-key-ariane-6-test-delayed-nasa-urged-to-look-at-sls-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1194442","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Report: Key Ariane 6 test delayed; NASA urged to look at SLS alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> The Falcon Heavy rocket’s two side boosters returned to Cape Canaveral for landing after sending NASA’s Psyche spacecraft on its way into deep space. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann\/Ars Technica)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Welcome to Edition 6.16 of the Rocket Report! Lots of news here today about big rockets, including a push by SpaceX to speed up launch licensing by the Federal Aviation Administration. The full-court press in Washington, DC, comes as the company says its Starship rocket is ready for a second flight test but still awaiting final regulatory approval. The earliest the launch could now occur is during the first half of November.<\/p>\n

As always, we welcome reader submissions<\/a>, and if you don’t want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.<\/p>\n

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Virgin Galactic to fly sixth mission in six months<\/strong>. The California-based suborbital space tourism company announced this week<\/a> that its “Galactic 05” mission will take flight as early as November 2. Such a flight would continue Virgin Galactic’s impressive monthly cadence of flying its VSS Unity<\/em> spacecraft this year. This flight will carry researchers who will use the interior of the space plane as a lab for research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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