New Long March rockets and commercially-developed launch vehicles are expected to have their first flights in 2025, boosting ...

We’ve got quite a busy schedule for rocket launches this week including iSpace’s Hyperbola rocket, Roscosmos’ Angara 1.2, Rocket Lab’s Electron, and two of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 craft.

The 68 launches include two failures, both of commercial solid rockets: Kinetica-1 and Hyperbola-1 from iSpace in July. China is second for launches in 2024 behind the U.S., with over 150 launches ...