Rocket Report: SpaceX scraps costly tooling, Vandenberg lull, Starliner slip

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Welcome to Edition 1.41 of the Rocket Report! This week we definitely have an international flavor, with news about spaceflight efforts from Brazil, Italy, Japan, the UAE, and the United States. There also is a fun story about hypersonic launch completing some initial tests with evidently promising returns.

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Brazilian spaceport wins key US agreement. Brazil's decades-long effort to launch satellites from its underused Alcintara Launch Center could finally be bearing fruit, Parabolic Arc reports. On Monday, Brazil and the United States signed a Technology Safeguards Agreement that will allow American companies to launch orbital rockets from Alcintara.

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