Any news on the new space race ?
New? Well, Voyager 1 is still ahead, and not going to be passed any time soon. Pioneer 10 is about 26AU behind, in second place (and losing ground on first) but Voyager 2 is only in 3rd by about žAU and going almost a third as fast again as its nearest rival, so may well gain 2nd quite soon. Pioneer 11 trails these to hold a solid 4th, on paper, but New Horizons has so far reached half as far in nearly 17 years as the former has gotten in a full half century. Not actually much faster (currently about midway between the Pioneer velocities and those of the Voyagers) but sent on on a trajectory without so much deliberate loitering around the planets in the initial years of the mission
Then there's various final boost stages and released counterweights, in partly associated trajectories as uncounted placings slotted and interleved into the above list, but I'd class all of
them the same as riderless horses or unhorsed riders!
(If, instead, you're looking for something like the Starship/Superheavy launch, they're promising a
possible full launch test in the next month or maybe not, last I checked, but that might depend upon the FAA, et al, regardless of SpaceX's feelings on the matter. There's both optimism and pessimism aplenty, in the 'expert' places that chatter about this sort of thing. Hard to narrow down the realistic answer to this question, especially given the timing by Musk always seems to keep sliding... )