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Aerojet Rocketdyne announced an expansion of its existing advanced engine development agreement with the Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to develop the upper-stage RL10C-X engine and continue the AR1 booster engine development programme through production of the first engine.

A special train loaded with Soyuz 2.1A and Soyuz 2.1B launch vehicle units have arrived at the Vostochny cosmodrome.

Spaceflight and Virgin Orbit have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a mission to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in 2019.

The U.S. Air Force has announced the award of an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch service contract.

SSL announced it shipped the first of three satellites that SSL will deliver to the SpaceX launch base at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida over the next month.

With just one year before Vega-C lifts off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, preparations for Europe’s next launcher are gaining momentum, ESA said.

The space debris removal technology mission RemoveDEBRIS, led by the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) at the University of Surrey, has been launched into orbit from the International Space Station (ISS). RemoveDEBRIS will demonstrate a range of technologies to clean up space debris, with the first Airbus designed and built experiment due for deployment in October 2018.

Russia’s S7 Space, part of the S7 Group, plans to build a plant in Samara to produce Soviet-designed NK-33 and NK-43 rocket engines for super heavy-lift launch vehicles and intends to purchase production capacities from the state-owned United Engine Corporation (UEC) for this purpose, S7 Space General Director Sergey Sopov said in an interview.