Rocket Lab notched a programme milestone on 23 August, lofting its 70th Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. The “Live, Laugh, Launch” flight—Rocket Lab’s 12th of the year—placed EchoStar’s Lyra-2 satellite and four confidential payloads into low-Earth orbit after an on-time lift-off at 22:42 UTC and successful payload deployment roughly an hour later. The mission preserves the company’s 100 percent success record for 2025. Less than 24 hours later, SpaceX despatched a Falcon 9 carrying the CRS-33 Dragon cargo ship from Cape Canaveral at 2:45 a.m. ET on 24 August. The uncrewed capsule reached the International Space Station at 7:05 a.m. ET on 25 August, delivering about 5,000 pounds of food, research equipment and a two-thruster “boost kit” that will be used to raise the station’s altitude later this year. The flight is the 33rd resupply run for NASA and the 50th overall mission flown by a Dragon vehicle. SpaceX is also pressing ahead with the tenth flight test of its Super Heavy–Starship system after scrubbing Sunday’s attempt roughly 20 minutes before launch because of a ground-systems liquid-oxygen leak. Engineers replaced the faulty quick-disconnect line overnight and the company said it is ‘go’ for propellant loading ahead of a revised 6:59 p.m. CT (23:59 UTC) launch target this evening from Starbase, Texas. Meteorologists put the probability of acceptable weather at 55 percent at the start of the one-hour window. A successful Starship flight would mark a critical step in demonstrating the fully reusable rocket that NASA plans to adapt for a 2027 Artemis lunar landing. The vehicle has yet to complete all test objectives in nine previous attempts, making today’s launch one of the most closely watched in the commercial-space calendar.