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Orbex announced it has started construction of its first launch platform, the first orbital space launchpad to be built in the UK for more than half a century.

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Virgin Orbit has announced alongside space-based data and analytics provider Spire Global that they have received waiver approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority to include Spire on Virgin Orbit’s upcoming launch.

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Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload; IXPE; Date: 8 December 2021, 2000 UTC; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, USA. The rocket performed as expected, with spacecraft separation taking place 33 minutes into flight.

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Planet Labs Inc. announced the completion of its previously announced business combination with dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company [SPAC].

New Symphonie, the recently established consortium of 22 European companies, has won the European Commission call for tenders entitled “New Space solutions for long-term availability of reliable, secure, cost-effective space-based connectivity.”

Smallsat mission integrator NanoAvionics US has received a mission contract by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The 12U (1U equals 10 × 10 × 10 cm³) spacecraft, about the size of a microwave oven, will host the Mini Astrophysical MeV Background Observatory (MAMBO) mission.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) received telemetry data from the RApid Innovative payload demonstration SatellitE-2 (RAISE-2) launched abroad the fifth Epsilon Launch Vehicle (Epsilon-5) on 9 November from Uchinoura Space Center as part of JAXA’s Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-2.

NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) and a NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory space weather payload to study the Sun’s radiation lifted off on 7 December aboard the Space Test Program Satellite-6 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida as part of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Test Program 3 (STP-3) mission.