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Company monthly report for July 2026. The stage one structural qualification test campaign is complete. The structural test stand, known internally as the Tender Loving Crusher, conducted lifecycle and burst pressure testing including 420 pressure cycles, 62 proof, stability and ultimate loading cases, and axial compression loading reaching 4.3 million pounds-force (19.4 million Newtons) while pressurised. The company states successful completion validates that the stage one tank is ready to withstand the loads of ground operations, launch and flight. The team released 1,130 flight parts and fully released the stage one shipping assembly, described as the culmination of more than two years of design work and marking full release of more than 11,000 stage one structures, fluids systems, avionics and harnesses. The first circumferential friction stir weld for a flight two tank was completed, and a carbon fibre composite panel was produced, laminated and cured in-house. The company also noted the US Space Force on-ramped Relativity into the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 programme in July.

The Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) transforms battlespace operations by enabling network-centric command and control for the U.S. and its allies.

Impulse Space introduced Electra, its first electric propulsion (EP) system, designed, built and tested entirely in-house. Electra is positioned as a complement to rather than a replacement for the company's existing high-thrust chemical propulsion line, letting mission designers combine efficient electric propulsion for cargo transport across cislunar space, orbit changes, spacecraft servicing and off-world infrastructure support with the ability to manoeuvre quickly when timing is critical. The announcement frames in-space mobility after launch, rather than launch itself, as the company's core thesis.

Company monthly report for June 2026. Released 2,238 flight parts, including nearly all components required for the first stage shipping assembly. All vehicle structures and closeouts were completed on the stage one qualification article, which was handed off from manufacturing to factory test, transported using two heavy lift forklifts and lifted into the structural test stand, where qualification officially began with initial proof test cases successfully completed. The second stage arrived in Mississippi after moving through the Panama Canal to Gulfport, then by barge up the Pearl River to NASA Stennis. The exhaust diverter, measuring 97 feet (30 metres) and weighing 1.4 million pounds (635 metric tons), arrived on site and was installed on the A2 stage test stand ahead of the stage two hot fire campaign. Acceptance testing was completed for all flight-one Aeon R first stage engines.

Stoke Space said it had completed Stage 1 proto-qualification testing for Nova over a three-week campaign at its Moses Lake Test Site in Washington. The campaign verified 46 structural test objectives across the vehicle while also exercising fluid systems, avionics, software, ground systems and operational procedures, including cryogenic testing of the Stage 1 structure. The company described structural qualification as one of the most demanding phases of launch-vehicle development and the point at which new rockets most often reveal their hardest problems, noting that the industry has recently lost early flight tanks, interstages and other primary structures during qualification.

Stoke Space's Nova first stage successfully completed proto-qualification testing, marking a key hardware performance milestone after years of design and analysis.

Company monthly report for May 2026. Released 1,455 flight parts. Teams finalised second stage integration including fluids systems, brackets, avionics, harnesses, valves and raceway hardware, then assembled transport fixtures, wrapped the vehicle and performed final checkouts before the stage left the factory and transited to the Port of Long Beach, where it was loaded onto a sea vessel bound for NASA Stennis. The company described the milestone as marking the beginning of the next phase of the Terran R programme. Installation began on the first outer engine liquid oxygen and fuel feedlines on the thrust structure. At NASA Stennis, teams completed the Aeon V second stage engine qualification campaign, hitting service life, duration and start milestones for flight one, and a test readiness review was held for stage one qualification.

Firefly expanded its Central Texas campus and opened an innovation lab to raise spacecraft production rate - a capacity commitment that speaks to its ability to deliver an increasing lander and Elytra manifest.

Vast announced a new business line supplying high-power satellite buses, leveraging in-house space station technology and flight heritage from the Haven Demo satellite. A diversification beyond crewed stations into spacecraft platforms.

Company monthly Terran R progress report for April 2026. Released 2,055 flight parts with a concerted effort on the stage one shipping assembly. Second stage tank internals and structures are complete with avionics trays, boxes, harnesses and valves installed alongside raceway integration, and low-voltage checkouts have begun bringing together avionics boxes and flight software on the vehicle. Stage one qualification article welding is complete with the final circumferential friction stir weld finished. In propulsion, all first stage Aeon R engines for flight one have been manufactured, assembled and shipped. Second stage hardware-in-the-loop build is complete and software run-for-record testing began. At NASA Stennis, full-duration mission duty cycles were run on the second stage Aeon V engine.