Electron Wins Virgin Launch, ULA's First 2023 Mission Flies.

Rocket Lab will launch Canada's NorthStar Earth and Space's first four satellites this fall on an Electron rocket after Virgin Orbit's bankruptcy scotched plans to deploy its space situational awareness satellites this summer. Rocket Lab also completed its first suborbital testbed launch vehicle, called HASTE, for a confidential customer. German company Rocket Factory Augsburg signed a binding term sheet with the French space agency CNES to offer its launch services from the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana.