#reusability

SpaceX is preparing the first launch of Starship Version 3, a suborbital test meant to debut upgraded hardware, deploy simulator satellites, and gather data for future return and reuse goals.

SpaceX is targeting May 19 for Flight 12, the first mission to use its redesigned Starship Version 3 architecture, Raptor 3 engines and the company’s new Pad 2 launch-and-catch infrastructure.

Blue Origin achieved a major reusability milestone with New Glenn, yet the mission also exposed how far the company still has to go after its payload was left in a lower-than-planned orbit.

Blue Origin achieved its first reflight and landing of an orbital-class New Glenn booster, a major step for reusability, before an upper stage problem undercut the mission’s overall success.

A Starlink mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base is set to test another marker in SpaceX reusability: the company’s 600th Falcon booster landing attempt, using booster B1097 on its seventh flight.