Posted: Sun, Dec 28 9:58 AM ET (1458 GMT)
Tory Bruno, the longtime president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, has resigned from the company to work for Blue Origin. ULA announced Monday that Bruno was leaving the company for an unspecified opportunity. On Friday, Blue Origin announced that it had hired as president of a new national security business unit in the company, reporting to CEO Dave Limp. Bruno had led ULA since mid-2014, guiding the company through a transition from the Atlas and Delta rockets to the new Vulcan Centaur. At Blue Origin, Bruno will work to secure more military business for the company's products, including its New Glenn rocket and Blue Ring spacecraft.

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Posted: Sun, Dec 28 9:50 AM ET (1450 GMT)
The first flight of the Long March 12A successfully reached orbit, but the rocket’s booster was not able to land. The Long March 12A rocket lifted off at 9:00 pm EST Monday (0200 GMT Tuesday) from the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Test Zone at the Jiuquan spaceport. Chinese officials said that the rocket’s upper stage reached orbit, but acknowledged the booster did not perform a landing as planned on a pad 250 kilometers downrange from the launch site. Imagery shared on social media suggested that the landing was unsuccessful, potentially landing around two kilometers from the pad. The launch came nearly three weeks after Chinese company Landspace attempted a landing on the first flight of its Zhuque-3 rocket. The first stage crashed near its landing pad on that flight, but the upper stage did reach orbit.

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Posted: Sun, Dec 28 9:46 AM ET (1446 GMT)
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Posted: Sun, Dec 28 9:43 AM ET (1443 GMT)
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SDA selects four companies to build missile-tracking satellites
Posted: Sun, Dec 28 9:41 AM ET (1441 GMT)
The Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded $3.5 billion in contracts to four companies for a set of missile-tracking satellites. The contracts, announced Dec....