SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Will Be Killed Off – Deep Space Updates September 18th

The first half of September saw the successful launches of two rockets that had never reached orbit before. China's Galactic Energy launched the Pallas-1, showing that the company can do more than just build rockets out of repurposed solid rocket motors. And Isar Aerospace were successful on their second go with the Spectrum rocket which reached orbit from Andoya, Norway making it the first successful orbital rocket launch from western Europe. This was also the first propane fueled rocket to reach orbit. Starship flight 14 is getting close, it just got pushed back to September 28th while there's some licensing to sort out, understandable since this is a fully orbital flight that'll spend 9 hours in orbit, circumnavigating the earth 6 times if all goes according to plan. And after Blue Origin won the Mars Telecommunications orbiter contract Rocket Lab has decided to challenge the award in court. The battle for Mars has begun in Earth courts. Source: