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SpaceX Reentry Vehicle Secures First Customer For Microgravity Research
Redwire’s pharmaceutical subsidiary SpaceMD has purchased a dedicated mission on SpaceX’s Starfall reentry vehicle for late 2028, carrying up to 32 microgravity experiment packages. This marks the first commercial customer for Starfall, which completed its debut test flight in June. Separately, Blue Origin has identified an oxygen valve failure as the cause of the New Glenn rocket explosion, and South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter has photographed the impact crater left by a SpaceX upper stage on the Moon’s surface. The news was first reported by an unknown source.