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NROL-179 Starshield Satellites Launch from Vandenberg | KeepTrack X Report
SpaceX launched NROL-179 from Vandenberg at 1:50 a.m. PDT June 19, carrying Starshield spy satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office.
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Blue Origin Rebuilds New Glenn Pad After June Explosion | KeepTrack Space Brief
Blue Origin begins full reconstruction of Cape Canaveral launch pad after New Glenn explosion. Company targets return to flight before end of 2026.
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· x reportSpaceX Launches First Block 2 BlueBirds for AST SpaceMobile | KeepTrack X Report
SpaceX delivered 3 Block 2 BlueBird satellites for AST SpaceMobile from Pad 40, advancing direct-to-cell broadband with 10,650 Starlink craft now active.
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Air Force Selects General Atomics, Anduril for CCA Wingmen | KeepTrack Space Brief
Air Force awards CCA contracts to General Atomics and Anduril for autonomous fighter wingmen. Autonomy layer split across Anduril, Shield AI, and Collins Aerospace.
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Sally Ride and the Twenty Years It Took America to Catch Up
At 7:33 on the morning of 18 June 1983, a 32-year-old astrophysicist named Sally Ride rode Challenger off Pad 39A and became the first American woman in space. She got there two decades after the Soviets, and only after months of being asked whether spaceflight would damage her reproductive organs and whether she planned to cry.
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· x reportSpaceX Acquires Cursor AI for $60B Post-IPO | KeepTrack X Report
SpaceX's first post-IPO acquisition targets Cursor AI for $60B as Falcon 9 lofts 3 Block 2 BlueBird satellites and Dragon CRS-34 departs ISS.