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Virgin Galactic said an issue on its sixth commercial mission at no time posed “a safety impact to the vehicles or the crew on board.”
The Pentagon believes it has identified the mechanical failure that led to a fatal crash of an Osprey aircraft in Japan and the grounding of the fleet for two months, a U.S. defense official told The Associated Press. The Pentagon’s Joint Safety Council is now working with the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps on their plans to get Osprey crews ready to fly again, said Navy Rear Adm. Chris Engdahl, chairman of the council and commander of Naval Safety Command.
Blue Origin’s tourism rocket — designed to vault paying customers on brief trips to the edge of space — successfully launched Tuesday morning.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket was destroyed after a failed uncrewed 2022 science mission. Now the rocket — designed to carry tourists — is returning to flight.
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket will likely return to flight before the year is out, though work remains to be complete before missions can resume, according to a new statement released Wednesday. Rocket Lab said it had received authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration to resume Electron launches from the company’s New Zealand launch complex, but that does not mean that the regulator has given the greenlight. Rocket Lab must still complete its investigation into the anomaly that led to a mission failure on September 19 and implement an FAA-approved mishap investigati...