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Sunday 11 October 2026 · Issue 19 · 2 min read
SDA Tranche 1 batch reaches orbit; Blue Ring-1 appears on New Glenn's book; CRS-35 has an instantaneous window Tuesday
Flew
Falcon 9 / SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A — After a week of day-by-day slips, the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 Transport Layer A batch lifted off at 07:39:44 UTC on Saturday and the flight is logged as a success.
News
New Glenn / Blue Ring-1 — has been added to the public launch schedule: the debut flight of Blue Origin's Blue Ring, a tug that combines solar-electric and chemical propulsion, flying from Launch Complex 36A at Cape Canaveral into geostationary transfer orbit and then on to geostationary orbit. No date is attached yet. It is the first sign that Blue Origin's second New Glenn payload class is firming up, and a listing appearing is usually the step before a NET date you can actually plan a morning around. The tug carries Scout Space's Owl space-domain-awareness sensor and Optimum Technologies' Caracal optical payload, plus several Blue Origin in-house payloads. Space Launch Now
One takeaway
Set an alarm for Tuesday 10:33:44 UTC: CRS-35 has no second chance. The next cargo Dragon to the International Space Station, CRS-35, is listed as go for Tuesday at 10:33:44 UTC, and its window opens and closes at that same second. That is an instantaneous window: rendezvous with a station already in its orbit leaves no slack, so a boat in the range, a cloud rule or a held count means a scrub rather than a wait. Space Launch Now