Transporter-5
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off May 25 on the Transporter-5 rideshare mission carrying 59 payloads.

A tight launch market, coupled with high inflation, has driven up launch prices in the last year, putting a squeeze on customers.

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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...