Welcome to Edition 8.07 of the Rocket Report! It's that time again: another test flight of SpaceX's massive Starship vehicle. In this week's report, we have a review of what went wrong on Flight 9 in May and a look at the stakes for the upcoming mission,

New rocket plans continue to emerge to support China’s growing space ambitions China’s state-owned and commercial rocket makers have plans for yet more new launch vehicles, despite an already competitive field and imminent test flights.

The commercial spaceflight company completed a milestone mission on Monday.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 rocket as a launch vehicle, a Japanese space agency official said on Friday.

In the near term, ULA will switch back to launching its soon-to-retire Atlas V rocket, the Vulcan rocket's predecessor. The company has 13 more Atlas Vs in its inventory, most of them sold to Amazon and Boeing to launch Kuiper Internet satellites and Starliner crew missions to the International Space Station.

A three-decade veteran of the company under multiple branding iterations, Emerson’s planned retirement from the company at the end of the year was announced Wednesday, but he plans to remain on the Rocket board of directors, alongside founder and billionaire businessman Dan Gilbert, the company’s chairman.

The FDA has freed Rocket Pharmaceuticals from a clinical hold, giving the gene therapy developer permission to take flight with its pivotal cardiomyopathy disorder trial. | The FDA has freed Rocket Pharmaceuticals from a clinical hold,

The U.S. health regulator has allowed a study of Rocket Pharmaceuticals' gene therapy to resume, less than three months after halting it following a patient's death.

A rocket has struck near the United Nations' headquarters in Libya's western region while the UN envoy was briefing the Security Council.