The Australian government announced in April that it would invest an initial AU$126.9 million to establish solid rocket motor production in Australia.

The Newcastle missile factory will begin production of the Naval Strike Missile and Joint Strike Missile in 2027.

Black Sands Test Range provides multiple test and evaluation facilities for energetics, kinetic effector, and hypersonic vehicle test programs.

Spinifex Space’s test and evaluation list covers static fire, hypersonic vehicles, kinetic effectors, energetics handling, and destructive testing.

Kongsberg Defence Australia and the Department of Defence established Kongsberg Defence Australia’s first missile factory outside Norway in Newcastle.

Northrop Grumman Australia was selected as the preferred industry partner for Australia’s solid rocket motor production effort.

Outback Space Port at the MAXQ facility supports suborbital vertical launch and horizontal launch test campaigns across more than 3 million acres of southwestern Queensland.

The Department of Defence commenced operations with Lockheed Martin Australia in a new Missile Assembly Facility in Port Wakefield, South Australia, in December.

Spinifex Space operates Black Sands Test Range and Outback Space Port at the MAXQ facility.

Spinifex Space was established to provide end-to-end suborbital launch campaigns, private range access, and test and evaluation infrastructure in southwestern Queensland, Australia.

Ling Hangzhe is a cable net barge.

Mission Robotic Vehicle-1 and the Mission Extension Pods will raise their orbits to geostationary orbit separately before rendezvousing there.

Northrop Grumman’s Mission Robotic Vehicle-1 is scheduled to launch no earlier than July 21, 2026 at 21:15 UTC.

Mission Robotic Vehicle-1 and the Mission Extension Pods are intended for installation on satellites from Intelsat, SES, and Optus.

Falcon 9 first stage B1069-32 will be expended on the mission.

Mission Robotic Vehicle-1 will launch with three Mission Extension Pods.

The Long March 5 Y14 launch vehicle carrying Chang'e-7 arrived at Wenchang launch site on 2026-07-13.

Chang'e-7 is intended to help lay the foundation for a future lunar station.

Chang'e-7 is planned to land near the Moon’s south pole.

NASA paid $40 million for Pegasus to launch the IRIS mission in 2013.

LINK was built to rescue NASA’s 2004 Swift telescope, which lacks propulsion of its own.

Northrop Grumman built no additional Pegasus rockets after the final vehicle.

NASA paid $40 million for the IRIS Pegasus mission in 2013.

The Space Force used Pegasus for the TacRL-2 tactically responsive launch mission in 2021.

Rocket Lab launched a Space Force target satellite called Puma from a fixed pad in New Zealand on June 19, 2026.

NASA paid $56.3 million for the ICON Pegasus mission in 2014.

Mosaic, True Anomaly’s autonomy software, planned the maneuvers and ran the imaging passes during the JACKAL-0004 sortie.

Virgin Orbit filed for Chapter 11 in April 2023.

Mosaic, True Anomaly’s autonomy software, planned JACKAL-0004’s maneuvers and imaging passes during the VICTUS HAZE mission.

Rocket Lab launched Puma 16 hours and 42 minutes after receiving the alert, beating a 24-hour requirement.

Stargazer staged the final Pegasus launch from Kwajalein Atoll to reach Swift’s low-inclination orbit.

DARPA was Pegasus’s first customer.

Rocket Lab has used the Electron launch pad for more than 60 launches.

Katalyst Space Technologies’ LINK servicer was Pegasus’s final payload.

Pegasus’s final payload was Katalyst Space Technologies’ LINK servicer.

VICTUS SOL, the first fully operational tactical mission, was already in planning.

Virgin Orbit filed Chapter 11 in April 2023.

The TacRL-2 Pegasus call-up took 21 days.

The Space Force completed and announced the VICTUS HAZE mission on July 1, 2026.

The U.S. Space Force used Pegasus for the TacRL-2 mission in 2021 to demonstrate tactically responsive launch.

Katalyst Space Technologies built the LINK servicer in under nine months on a roughly $30 million NASA contract.

NASA paid $56.3 million for Pegasus to launch the ICON mission in 2014.

The target spacecraft for VICTUS HAZE was built under a $32 million contract placed in 2024.

VICTUS SOL, the first fully operational tactical mission, is already in planning.

Pegasus first launched from a NASA B-52 on April 5, 1990.

Rocket Lab launched the Space Force target satellite Puma from a fixed pad in New Zealand on June 19, 2026.

The 46th and final Pegasus rocket separated from Orbital Sciences’ L-1011 carrier aircraft and ignited its motor on July 3, 2026.

Pegasus was the world’s first privately developed orbital launch vehicle when it first flew from a NASA B-52 on April 5, 1990.

Rocket Lab launched the tactical VICTUS HAZE mission on June 19, 2026, and then entered an $8 billion agreement to acquire Iridium ten days later on June 29.

Katalyst built LINK in under nine months under a roughly $30 million NASA contract.