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Astrobotic rules out soft landing on moon after propellant leak dooms its spacecraft
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander is shown during last month’s preparations for launch. (ULA Photo) Astrobotic says that it’s given up on its plan to put a commercial spacecraft safely on the moon’s surface, due to a propellant leak that will soon leave its Peregrine lander without fuel. The Pittsburgh-based company said there was no indication that…
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Rocket Lab Awarded $0.5 Billion Contract by SDA to Design and Build Satellite Constellation
Rocket Lab USA, a leading provider of space launch services and advanced satellite technology, announced it has been selected by and is under contract with the Space Development Agency (SDA) to design and build 18 Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta Data Transport Satellites (T2TL – Beta). Rocket Lab will act as the prime contractor for the…
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Venus Aerospace and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Collaborate on New Engine Tech
Venus Aerospace, one of the hypersonics leaders developing reusable hypersonic flight platforms, has partnered with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to achieve one of the longest sustained tests of a rotating detonation rocket engine. Venus designs and manufactures hypersonic engines and aircraft for research, defense, and commercial missions. The goal of this partnership was to…
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Daily Telescope: The Wizard Nebula captured above Germany
Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’re going to take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a…
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ISRO’s Aditya-L1 Solar Observatory Spacecraft Successfully Achieves Halo-Orbit Insertion
ISRO’s Aditya-L1 solar observatory spacecraft accomplished Halo-Orbit Insertion (HOI) at 16.00 Hrs (approx) on January 6, 2024 (IST). The final phase of the maneuver involved firing of control engines for a short duration. The orbit of the Aditya-L1 spacecraft is a periodic Halo orbit which is located roughly 1.5 million km from Earth on the…
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ULA’s Vulcan rocket shot for the Moon on debut launch—and hit a bullseye
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—Right out of the gate, United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan rocket chased perfection. The Vulcan launcher hit its marks after lifting off from Florida’s Space Coast for the first time early Monday, successfully deploying a commercial robotic lander on a journey to the Moon and keeping ULA’s unblemished success record intact. “Yeehaw! I…
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UAE’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre to Provide Airlock for NASA’s Gateway Program
NASA and the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced plans for the space center to provide an airlock for Gateway, humanity’s first space station that will orbit the Moon. The lunar space station will support NASA’s missions for long-term exploration of the Moon under Artemis for the benefit of…
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Kratos and Rancher Partner for Virtual Ground Systems Deployment Using OpenSpace Platform
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, a technology company in Defense, National Security, and Global Markets, and Rancher Government Solutions, the provider company of enterprise Kubernetes management solutions to the U.S. Government, announced a strategic partnership to enable customers to seamlessly deploy and scale virtual ground systems using Kratos’ software-based OpenSpace Platform. With increasingly complex and…
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Astrobotic’s moon lander suffers failure in propulsion system, putting mission at risk
An artist’s conception shows Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander with Earth in the background. (Astrobotic via YouTube) Hours after the launch of its commercial moon lander, Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic reported a failure within the robotic spacecraft’s propulsion system that could rule out a soft landing. “Unfortunately, it appears the failure within the propulsion system is causing a critical…
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The first Vulcan rocket launches commercial moon lander from Cape Canaveral
Watch live coverage as the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket will launches on its inaugural flight with the Peregrine commercial robotic lunar lander for Astrobotic. Peregrine will carry multiple experiments, scientific instruments, and tech demo payloads for NASA and other customers. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station…