California rocket launches have soared. Here's why even more are ahead

California's Vandenberg is on pace for another record year for rocket launches. A new forecast predicts even more are ahead in the next decade.
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Taiwan’s first homegrown rocket test veers off course, alarming nearby villagers

Villagers in southern Taiwan mistook a wayward test rocket for an incoming missile early ...

India’s first privately developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch

Indian space officials celebrated the debut flight of, India’s first fully commercial satellite launcher, as a “grand success” Saturday after an on-target climb into a 280-mile-high orbit following ...
The Business Standard

China recovers rocket stage on land for first time after earlier sea recovery

The achievement marks China’s second successful recovery of a rocket stage. In July, the country recovered a rocket stage on a sea platform ...
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Touchdown! Private Chinese rocket aces landing on 2nd-ever flight

The Beijing-based company LandSpace landed its Zhuque-3 rocket this evening (Aug. 18), notching a huge milestone for ...
Ars Technica

Rocket Report: A dark day for Blue Origin; Pentagon eyes new launch site

Welcome to Edition 8.43 of the Rocket Report! A disclaimer: No one yet fully appreciates the ramifications of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explosion Thursday night on its launch pad at Cape ...