Pulsar Fusion has demonstrated its new, MACH-7 green hybrid rocket fuelled with N2O and HDPE from recycled plastic in Gstaad, Switzerland. The engine is capable of launching vehicles to an altitude of several tens of km or powering the upper stage of a rocket into orbit.

SpinLaunch conducted a successful first test flight of their alternative method of launching spacecraft into orbit in New Mexico last month, CNBC reported. The launch system uses kinetic energy with a centrifuge spinning the rocket faster than the speed of sound before releasing.

China launched its third Gaofen-11 reconnaissance satellite on a Long March 4B rocket, Chinese state media reported. The Gaofen satellites form China´s High-resolution Earth Observation System and comprise optical, multispectral and synthetic aperture radar spacecraft.

Maritime Launch Services is preparing to launch the country’s first commercial spaceport to provide satellite launch services to Canada’s growing commercial space sector. Their first payload services provider will be Nanoracks, Maritime announced. Nova Scotia-based aerospace company, Maritime, unveiled the preliminary designs for the spaceport’s Launch Control Centre (LCC).

Russia’s newest docking port, the Prichal module will arrive at the ISS today to provide five additional docking ports and fuel transfer capability to the space lab. Prichal is controlled by the Progress vehicle and will automatically dock to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.

Isar Aerospace has joined the RIT 2021 space development program with plans to expand its operations in the Kiruna space cluster in northern Sweden, RIT Space reported. RIT 2021 is an EU-funded collaborative project aiming to create sustainable growth in the region of Norrbotten, enhancing its role as Sweden’s space industry.

Nanoracks Europe announced preparations to deploy FEES2, the first-ever 0.3U CubeSat from the ISS. The trackable satellite, the thickness of a cherry, was developed by GP Advanced Projects (GPAP). Production and space projects management company GPAP called the mission a “major milestone towards building the first Italian nanosatellite constellation for IoT.”

ESA and French space agency, CNES, are exploring the possibility to create a European Space Transportation Hub, ESA said. The Hub is planned to be located in the Paris region. It would bring the main European actors in space transportation together in the same location.

NASA successfully launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission this morning on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. The aim of the mission is to demonstrate that sending a large, high-speed spacecraft into the path of an asteroid could change its motion. DART will now deploy its Roll Out Solar Arrays (ROSA) to provide the power needed for its solar electric propulsion system.

The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) announced the first of a series of six launches with two Galileo satellites per launch, from Spaceport Kourou. Galileo satellites 27 and 28 will be launched on-board of a Soyuz rocket on 2nd December.  EUSPA will be in charge of Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) operations which will be overseen by a team of specialists.