SSO-A Falcon 9 launch
After launching 64 satellites on a dedicated Falcon 9 mission last December, Spaceflight says it plans to take a more flexible approach, launching smaller numbers of satellites at a time on more launches.

SpaceX filed a bid protest in federal court against the government May 17, but most details about the protest, including the specific award being protested, remain undisclosed.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...