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Intuitive Machines’ second attempt to land on the Moon also went sideways
Inside a small control room, during the middle of the day on Thursday local time in Texas, about a dozen white-knuckled engineers at a space startup named Intuitive Machines started to get worried. Their spacecraft, a lander named Athena, was beginning its final descent down to the lunar surface. A little more than a year…
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Starship Flight 8: Starship Block 2 once again finds trouble during flight
SpaceX was able to get its Starship Flight 8 off the ground after a scrub Monday afternoon; its goal was to repeat the Flight 7 objectives. However, Flight 8 ended in a similar spot, with Ship 34’s ascent into space being cut short due to an unknown issue. At 5:31 P.M. CT, SpaceX successfully lifted…
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Intuitive Machines lunar lander healthy, but apparently on its side
Intuitive Machines Athena lander pictured in low lunar orbit prior to its final descent to the surface. Image: Intuitive Machines. A commercially built moon lander built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines landed near the moon’s south pole Thursday, but telemetry indicated it ended up on its side. The lander is “alive,” officials said, but it’s not…
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Blue Ghost successfully starts lunar surface mission while IM-2 lands sideways
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program is now seeing more results from the work done by providers to fulfill its task orders in the past few years, though not without challenges. Two robotic lunar landers from different US commercial providers landed on the lunar surface, with one successfully landing upright and starting its mission,…
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Apex’s First Aries Satellite Achieves One Full Year On-Orbit Milestone
Apex‘s first Aries spacecraft mission, Aries Serial Number One (SN1), surpassed one year on-orbit of nominal operations. The anniversary is a major milestone for Apex, the leading high-rate configurable satellite bus platform manufacturer, and for the space industrial base, which now has a new high-rate supplier they can depend on. Aries SN1 is the fastest…
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Astranis Completes U S Space Force Resilient GPS Demonstration Ahead of Schedule
Astranis announced the completion of a key demonstration for the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Resilient GPS (R-GPS) program, transmitting core GPS waveforms using Astranis’ software-defined radio hardware. The demonstration was delivered on budget and ahead of schedule, just four months into the program, highlighting Astranis’ ability to leverage their existing, flight-heritage high-orbit satellite hardware to…
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Infineon Expands Rad-Tolerant Power MOSFET for Space Applications
Infineon Technologies, a global semiconductor leader in power systems and IoT, announced the addition of P-channel power MOSFETs to its family of radiation-tolerant power MOSFETs for Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) space applications. The new devices are part of Infineon’s expanding portfolio designed for next-generation “NewSpace” applications, providing cost-optimized radiation-tolerant MOSFETs that enable engineers to achieve faster time-to-market…
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ST Engineering iDirect to Demonstrate Intuition Ground Systems at Satellite 2025
ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, will showcase its Intuition ground system’s next-gen capabilities in advanced automation, multi-orbit connectivity, and cloud-driven scalability through live demonstrations at the Satellite 2025 Conference and Exhibition. Designed to address the challenges of evolving satellite networks, Intuition’s next release is scheduled for later this year. Attendees at…