Repairing the damaged Florida launchpad is expected to take several months.

No Blue Origin personnel were injured in the New Glenn explosion.

Amazon Leo is planned to grow beyond 3,000 satellites in low Earth orbit.

United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V will launch 29 Amazon Leo satellites from Cape Canaveral at 18:27 Spanish peninsular time.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 will launch 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral at 14:57 Spanish peninsular time.

The Falcon 9 first-stage booster B1085 will fly for the sixteenth time on the Starlink 10-53 mission.

ULA has already placed 168 Amazon satellites into orbit.

The Starlink 10-53 mission will expand SpaceX’s Starlink megaconstellation, which already exceeds 10,000 operational satellites.

The Amazon Leo launch will be ULA’s seventh mission for the constellation.

SpaceX plans to land Falcon 9 booster B1085 on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas about eight and a half minutes after liftoff.

B1085 has previously supported eight Starlink missions, NASA’s Crew-9 mission, and Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1.

The 29-satellite Amazon Leo mission will match the largest and heaviest payload ever carried by Atlas V.

The Atlas V launch configuration for the Amazon Leo mission uses five side-mounted solid rocket boosters and a medium payload fairing.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Commercial Launch Vehicle Group procured the launch on behalf of the customer and managed the service as a one-stop shop.

The Long March 2D is 41.05 meters tall on the launch pad.

Four Weixing Hulianwang Jishu Shiyan satellites were onboard the Long March 2D launch.

The Long March 2D is owned by the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation.

Nine test satellites had been deployed so far in 2026.

The Long March 2D has a payload capacity of 1,300 kilograms to sun-synchronous orbit.

The launch brought the total number of test satellites launched to thirty-three.

The Weixing Hulianwang Jishu Shiyan satellites are being used to trial direct-to-device services and coordination between terrestrial and orbital networks for the state-backed GuoWang mega-constellation.

The Long March 2D first stage is powered by four YF-21C engines.

A new 4.2-meter-diameter composite fairing was used on the Long March 2D for a third time.

The Long March 2D first and second stages have a diameter of 3.35 meters.

The Long March 2D is a two-stage launch vehicle operated by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Commercial Satellite Co Ltd has claimed development of one of the Weixing Hulianwang Jishu Shiyan satellites.

The Long March 2D mission headed for low Earth orbit with test satellites.

The Long March 2D second stage is powered by a single YF-22C engine and four YF-23C verniers.

The Space Engineering General Department of the Second Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation has claimed development of another Weixing Hulianwang Jishu Shiyan satellite.

The Long March 2D has a payload capacity of 3,500 kilograms to low Earth orbit.

The Long March 2D regularly flies missions to low Earth orbit and sun-synchronous orbit.

The mission was the 267th Long March vehicle mission from the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology.

The Long March 2D has used fairings with diameters of 3.35, 3.8, 4, and 4.2 meters.

The Long March 2D has flown from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, and the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

The Long March 2D weighs 232,250 kilograms when fully fuelled.

A Long March 2D lifted off from Launch Complex 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 02:07 China Standard Time on May 31.

The Long March 2D Y119 launch took place in Xichang, China.

The European Commission intends an EU operator to integrate the reserved spectrum capability with IRIS2.

The EU’s IRIS2 multi-orbit array will include 290 satellites.

Eutelsat W2A suffered a partial failure of its S-band antenna after launch in April 2009.

The 2GHz mobile satellite service frequencies are currently held by Viasat/Inmarsat and EchoStar.

The European Commission’s proposal would split the available 2GHz mobile satellite service spectrum into three equal parts.

The EU executive plans to extend the current licences held by Viasat/Inmarsat and EchoStar for two more years from their planned expiry in May 2027.

EchoStar agreed to sell its US-issued 2GHz licences, including AWS-4 and H-block, to SpaceX for the Starlink Direct-to-Cellular network.

The remaining third of the mobile satellite spectrum will be reserved for EU state use such as security and military applications.

Solaris Mobile later became EchoStar Mobile and was based in Dublin.

The European 2GHz mobile satellite spectrum includes a 30 MHz pair at 1980–2010 MHz and 2170–2200 MHz.

The European Commission awarded Solaris Mobile the right to operate satellite and terrestrial services in S-band in all EU member states in May 2009.

SpaceX cannot buy EchoStar’s EU 2GHz MSS licence under the European Union’s proposal and must compete for spectrum on the open commercial block.

Viasat uses the 2GHz band for its hybrid satellite-cellular European Aviation Network, which provides in-flight broadband across Europe.