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There were 122 launches into Earth orbit or beyond in the first half of 2024 , up from 91 in the same period last year .
Firefly Aerospace placed eight CubeSats into orbit on the first flight of its Alpha rocket since an upper stage malfunction more than half a year ago .
Blue Origin and Stoke Space Technologies have been approved by the US Space Force to compete for launches of small payloads.
Italian rocket builder Sidereus Space Dynamics has completed the first integrated system test of its EOS rocket.
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