Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches 22 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday. (credit: SpaceX)
Welcome to Edition 6.18 of the Rocket Report! In this newsletter we've got a double dose of news from China, where there are two separate efforts to duplicate SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. On the American side of the pond we also have two stories about United Launch Alliance and its effort to get Vulcan flying, and the cost of the rocket's delays.
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Chinese company tests vertical landing. A Chinese commercial rocket company has successfully launched and safely landed a test article on its path to developing a reusable launch vehicle, Space News reports. Beijing-based Interstellar Glory Space Technology Ltd., also known as iSpace, launched the Hyperbola-2Y single-stage hopper on Thursday. The methane-liquid oxygen reusable test vehicle rose to a height of 178 meters during its 51-second flight.
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